Red Hat Product Security has been made aware of a vulnerability in the SSLv3 protocol, which has been assigned CVE-2014-3566 and commonly referred to as 'POODLE'. All implementations of SSLv3 are affected. Background Information POODLE stands for Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption. This vulnerability allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to decrypt ciphertext using a padding oracle side-
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