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Re: heartbleed OpenSSL bug CVE-2014-0160


From: "Schmidt, Michael" <michael.schmidt () walgreens com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 20:14:08 +0000

They are talking about their servers...

And, we have reason to believe based on the data structures used by OpenSSL and the modified version of NGINX that we 
use, that it may in fact be impossible.

"modified version of NGINX that we use"

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From: Fulldisclosure [mailto:fulldisclosure-bounces () seclists org] On Behalf Of Manuel Tiago Pereira
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 7:31 AM
Cc: fulldisclosure () seclists org
Subject: Re: [FD] heartbleed OpenSSL bug CVE-2014-0160

Hi,

CloudFlare has a very interesting article on their attempts to get a SSL private key, explaining why they find it very 
unlikely to be able to get it. Here it is:
http://blog.cloudflare.com/answering-the-critical-question-can-you-get-private-ssl-keys-using-heartbleed


On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Paul Vixie <paul () redbarn org> wrote:



Juergen Christoffel wrote:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:32:21PM -0700, Paul Vixie wrote:
[...]
really bruce? on a scale of doesn't-matter-at-all to 
worst-thing-you-could-have-previously-imagined, a read only exploit 
is even worse than that?

With all due respect to your ego Paul, I think you might 
under-estimate the long term effects: private keys get stolen, this 
allows people to play man-in-the-middle, people (the masses) will 
renew their certificates but might re-use their generated private 
keys because the don't know exactly what they are doing, etc.

thanks for whatever respect may be due, but bruce is still wrong. the 
cost to fix this is:

1. replace all private keys
2. replace all passwords
3. upgrade all SSL software

that rates 9 out of 10, where 10 is the worst thing i could have 
imagined pre-heartbleed, which is remote file modification and/or 
remote code execution, because the costs in that case would be:

1. inclusive of [1..3] above
2. replace all operating systems
3. audit or replace all user data

As the EFF's traces back into 2013 might tell us, some bad guys 
exploited this for some time now. If this is the case, we might soon 
arrive at the conclusion that we need to exchange all certificates 
which had been created in the last two years.

we already have to do that, since we have to assume the worst whenever 
we don't have log files which somehow prove a negative.


While I hope it tends to your interpretation, I fear a bit that it 
might be Bruces in the long run.

bruce was spouting nonsense. heartbleed's costs will not be higher 
than previously imaginable.

vixie

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