Is RHEL 6 and RHEL 5 vulnerable to CVE-2005-2969 ?

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Issue

Getting following Vulnerability in httpd-2.2.15,

  • Synopsis
    The remote service has a configuration that may make it vulnerable to the CRIME attack.

  • Description
    The remote service has one of two configurations that are known to be required for the CRIME attack:

  • SSL / TLS compression is enabled.
  • TLS advertises the SPDY protocol earlier than version 4.
    Note that Nessus did not attempt to launch the CRIME attack against the remote service.

  • Severity MEDIUM

  • Recommendation
    Disable compression and / or the SPDY service.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5,6

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