[CentOS] Security implications of openssl098e on CentOS 7

Wed Oct 21 18:58:22 UTC 2015
Nick Bright <nick.bright at valnet.net>

On 10/21/2015 1:55 PM, Andrew Holway wrote:
> Personally I would go round to that particular vendors office with a pipe
> wrench and encourage them to do better however, unless this software is
> transmitting credit card information then it seems that you could be
> safe(ish) from the regulation standpoint. It really depends on the location
> of the machine. Is it deep in the bowels of your high security nuclear
> bunker on an air gap network or is is merrily accepting incoming traffic
> from China? Is the software is using an appropriate SELinux policy or is it
> running unconfined or with SELinux turned off?
>
> It seems the PCI-DSS describe a set of simple rules to get IT managers
> thinking but they are somewhat open to interpretation. Are you abiding to
> the spirit of the regulations?
The particular software requiring 0.9.8 is performing backups of the 
system to a remote data center.

My concern is that, with the compatibility package installed, could this 
present vulnerabilities or compliance problems in Apache?

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