Linux Access Gateway Appliance does not support RFC 5746

  • 7008930
  • 01-Jul-2011
  • 07-Jun-2013

Environment

Novell Access Manager 3.1 SP3 IR2 Linux Access Gateway
RFC 5746 - SSL Secure Renegotiation

Situation

Purpose:

Access a resource protected by the Linux Access Gateway appliance (LAG) having the Firefox configuration parameter:

security.ssl.require_safe_negotiation = true

Symptoms:

The protected resource is not accessible and Firefox trigger the following error:

"ssl_error_unsafe_negotiation"

if the firefox parameter "security.ssl.require_safe_negotiation" is set to "False", the protected resource is accessible but the Firefox error console reports the following:

"server does not support RFC 5746, see CVE-2009-3555."

Resolution

The first LAG release that fully supports the RFC 5746 on the SSL renegotiation is the 3.1 SP4 (3.1.4-27).


Status

Security Alert