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Advisory CVE
- CVE-2014-3566, The SSL protocol 3.0, as used in OpenSSL through 1.0.1i and other products, uses nondeterministic CBC padding, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain cleartext data via a padding-oracle attack, aka the "POODLE" issue.
##Overview
xCAT does not package the OpenSSL RPM nor does it statically link to the OpenSSL libraries. Please obtain the lastest OpenSSL fixes from your Operating System distribution. No code changes to xCAT is required.
Use the xCAT site table attributes xcatsslciphers
and xcatsslversion
to tune the SSL configurations.
For detailed explanation and format, read about SSL_version and SSL_cipher_list from http://search.cpan.org/~sullr/IO-Socket-SSL-2.002/lib/IO/Socket/SSL.pod
##How to Configure SSL Version Between xcatd and xcat client
SSL connection is used for communication between xcatd and xcat client. In xCAT 2.10 and higher, TLSv1 is set as default version for the SSL connection between xcatd and xcat client. For the lower version, you can set the SSL version manually by yourself.
The highest SSL version supported by RHEL 6.x and SLES 11.x is TLSv1. To set:
chtab key=xcatsslversion site.value=TLSv1
The highest SSL version supported by RHEL 7.x, SLES 12.x, and Ubuntu 14.x is TLSv1.2.
Valid versions are 'TLSv1', 'TLSv1.1', or 'TLSv1.2' and setting the highest is recommended. To set:
[For RHEL 7.x and SLES 12.x]
chtab key=xcatsslversion site.value=TLSv12
[For Ubuntu 14.x]
chtab key=xcatsslversion site.value=TLSv1_2
[For AIX 7.1.3.x]
chtab key=xcatsslversion site.value=TLSv1_2
To disable some insecure ciphers, you can set the following values to xcatsslciphers
. (This only works with xcatsslversion higher than TLSv1)
"xcatsslciphers","kDH:kEDH:kRSA:!SSLv3:!SSLv2:!aNULL:!eNULL:!MEDIUM:!LOW:!MD5:!EXPORT:!CAMELLIA:!ECDH",,
Checking the SSL version that xcatd can accept
Run following command to check whether TLSv1 is supported by xcatd:
openssl s_client -connect 127.0.0.1:3001 -tls1
News
- Apr 22, 2016: xCAT 2.11.1 released.
- Mar 11, 2016: xCAT 2.9.3 (AIX only) released.
- Dec 11, 2015: xCAT 2.11 released.
- Nov 11, 2015: xCAT 2.9.2 (AIX only) released.
- Jul 30, 2015: xCAT 2.10 released.
- Jul 30, 2015: xCAT migrates from sourceforge to github
- Jun 26, 2015: xCAT 2.7.9 released.
- Mar 20, 2015: xCAT 2.9.1 released.
- Dec 12, 2014: xCAT 2.9 released.
- Sep 5, 2014: xCAT 2.8.5 released.
- May 23, 2014: xCAT 2.8.4 released.
- Jan 24, 2014: xCAT 2.7.8 released.
- Nov 15, 2013: xCAT 2.8.3 released.
- Jun 26, 2013: xCAT 2.8.2 released.
- May 17, 2013: xCAT 2.7.7 released.
- May 10, 2013: xCAT 2.8.1 released.
- Feb 28, 2013: xCAT 2.8 released.
- Nov 30, 2012: xCAT 2.7.6 released.
- Oct 29, 2012: xCAT 2.7.5 released.
- Aug 27, 2012: xCAT 2.7.4 released.
- Jun 22, 2012: xCAT 2.7.3 released.
- May 25, 2012: xCAT 2.7.2 released.
- Apr 20, 2012: xCAT 2.7.1 released.
- Mar 19, 2012: xCAT 2.7 released.
- Mar 15, 2012: xCAT 2.6.11 released.
- Jan 23, 2012: xCAT 2.6.10 released.
- Nov 15, 2011: xCAT 2.6.9 released.
- Sep 30, 2011: xCAT 2.6.8 released.
- Aug 26, 2011: xCAT 2.6.6 released.
- May 20, 2011: xCAT 2.6 released.
- Feb 14, 2011: Watson plays on Jeopardy and is managed by xCAT!
- xCAT Release Notes Summary
- xCAT OS And Hw Support Matrix
- xCAT Test Environment Summary
History
- Oct 22, 2010: xCAT 2.5 released.
- Apr 30, 2010: xCAT 2.4 is released.
- Oct 31, 2009: xCAT 2.3 released.
xCAT's 10 year anniversary! - Apr 16, 2009: xCAT 2.2 released.
- Oct 31, 2008: xCAT 2.1 released.
- Sep 12, 2008: Support for xCAT 2
can now be purchased! - June 9, 2008: xCAT breaths life into
(at the time) the fastest
supercomputer on the planet - May 30, 2008: xCAT 2.0 for Linux
officially released! - Oct 31, 2007: IBM open sources
xCAT 2.0 to allow collaboration
among all of the xCAT users. - Oct 31, 1999: xCAT 1.0 is born!
xCAT started out as a project in
IBM developed by Egan Ford. It
was quickly adopted by customers
and IBM manufacturing sites to
rapidly deploy clusters.