How can we mitigate CVE-2012-4929 SSL/TLS CRIME attack against HTTPS in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or 6

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Issue

  • httpd refuses to start when SSLCompression on is used in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf
  • How can we mitigate CVE-2012-4929 SSL/TLS CRIME attack against HTTPS in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or 6 on httpd and mod_ssl?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • OpenSSL
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server (EWS)
    • Apache httpd
    • mod_ssl

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