SSL3 "POODLE" Vulnerability

What is the Poodle vulnerability ? The "Poodle" vulnerability, released on October 14th, 2014, is an attack on the SSL 3.0 protocol. It is a protocol flaw, not an implementation issue; every implementation of SSL 3.0 suffers from it. Please note that we are talking about the old SSL 3.0, not TLS 1.0 or later. The TLS versions are not affected (neither is DTLS). In a nutshell: when SSL 3.0 uses a b