Fixing POODLE Vulnerability

Instructions to install security update on CentOS servers: http://alvinalexander.com/linux-unix/centos-yum-installing-only-security-updates

Fixing POODLE Vulnerability

The POODLE vulnerability will be fixed by disabling SSLV3 and SSLv2 in apache 

in CentOS:

sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf

find the SSLProtocol directive, modify that 

SSLProtocol all -SSLv3 -SSLv2

restart apache2

sudo service httpd restart

details are available here : https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-your-server-against-the-poodle-sslv3-vulnerability