{"id":2473,"date":"2014-10-20T14:49:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T05:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2014-10-20\/2473"},"modified":"2014-10-20T14:49:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T05:49:05","slug":"fixing-lightroom-problems-caused-by-the-poodle-security-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2014-10-20\/2473","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Lightroom Problems Caused by the POODLE Security Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\nCanon PowerShot S20 @ 6mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>20 sec, f<\/span>\/2.9, ISO 62 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nNo Poodles Here<\/span>\n(wow, beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder)<\/span>\nAt a gallery in Carmel California, in 2000\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

A security weakness dubbed “<\/span>POODLE”<\/span> has recently been discovered in how\ninternet-connected applications make secure connections, and this is having\nan increasingly-detrimental impact on Lightroom. Thankfully, it's easy\nenough to fix for most folks, and this post tells you how.<\/p>\n\n

POODLE<\/a>\nmanifests itself in that certain kinds of secure connections are no longer\nquite as secure as they're supposed to be, so until you fix this for your\nInternet-connected applications, your data may be at risk. But the secondary<\/span> problem is that, until fixed on your system, your\nInternet-connected applications like Lightroom may experience seemingly\nrandom network errors as more and more remote sites, in an effort to\nprotect their users' data, completely disable support for the insecure\nprotocol.<\/p>\n\n

(A tertiary problem is that folks running into these networking problems while\nusing my Lightroom plugins blame\nthe plugin and inundate me with bug reports.)<\/p>\n\n

How to fix for Mac OS X:<\/b><\/p>\n\n

Install Apple's latest security update (which you should be doing anyway). That's it. You're done.<\/p>\n\n

How to fix for Windows:<\/b><\/p>\n\n

If you use any of my\nLightroom plugins<\/a>, the easiest way to fix it is to upgrade to the\nlatest version of the plugin. As of versions<\/span> that I released<\/span> yesterday, all\nmy plugins do a one<\/span>-time check to see whether you're vulnerable, and if so,\npop up a dialog<\/span> that offers to fix it for you:<\/p>\n\n

<\/div>\n\n

Just click on the [fix now]<\/b> button and the plugin will fix the problem\n(disable SSL support in Internet Options, and enable TLS support.).<\/p>\n\n

If you don't use any of my plugins, or if you didn't fix it the one time\nthe dialog (perhaps unexpectedly) popped up, you can use my free my System\nInformation plugin<\/a> to check\/fix your system any time:<\/p>\n\n

<\/div>\n\n

The [how to fix]<\/b> button brings you to the same dialog shown earlier,\noffering to fix it immediately for you.<\/p>\n\n

In either case, the plugin fixes applications like Internet Explorer and\nLightroom that use the base Windows connection library. Some third-party\nbrowsers do their own networking, so must be fixed separately. If you have<\/span>\ncustom browsers on Windows, see this\npage<\/a>. (That page also explains how to do the base fix the plugins do,\nin case you don't want to have the plugins do it for you.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A security weakness dubbed \"POODLE\" has recently been discovered in how internet-connected applications make secure connections, and this is having an increasingly-detrimental impact on Lightroom. Thankfully, it's easy enough to fix for most folks, and this post tells you how.<\/p>

POODLE manifests itself in that certain kinds of secure connections are no longer quite as secure as they're supposed to be, so until you fix this for your Internet-connected applications, your data may be at risk. But the secondary problem is that, until fixed on your system, your Internet-connected applications like Lightroom may experience seemingly random network errors as more [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}