Re: Operative System Updates

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Dave Kleiman <dave () davekleiman com> wrote:
> haZ,
>
> For the files changed portion of your question, you could use something like Log Parser to gather lists of MD5s of 
> files and compare them after.
> Like if you wanted EXEs in the sys32.
>
> logparser "SELECT Path, HASHMD5_FILE(Path) INTO EXE_MD5s.csv FROM C:\Windows\System32\*.exe" -i:FS -recurse:0 -o:csv
No, not MD5.

In 2008, researchers set up a rogue CA. They were able to engineer
collisions. "MD5 considered harmful today,"
http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/. CAs responded with, "Past
certificates are OK, its only future certificates we need to worry
about."

So a bunch of certs signed with MD5 continued to live. Mozilla told us
(in 2008) they were working with CAs about those certificates: "MD5
Weaknesses Could Lead to Certificate Forgery,"
http://blog.mozilla.org/security/2008/12/30/md5-weaknesses-could-lead-to-certificate-forgery/.
But the damn things are still around in 2012: "By default, stop
accepting MD5 as a hash algorithm in certificate signatures,"
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590364.

In 2012, bad guys were able to engineer collisions, too. But in a way
that no researcher (that I am aware) took to proof of concept. The
chosen prefix collision attacks are one of the reasons why Flame
malware stayed under the radar for so long. "Microsoft Sub-CA used in
malware signing,"
http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2012-June/002961.html.

Now that MD5 is more broken (???) - as if just "broken" was not enough
- such that an attacker could potentially create a second binary file
with an expected hash due to chosen prefix collisions and empty space
in binaries, do you really think its suitable as a tripwire?

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of haZard0us
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 13:45
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Operative System Updates
>
> Hi all,
>
> I need to create a script that gathers information of the OS before and after the updates in order to detect changes 
> and which updates/service packs were used.
>
> To be honest, I really don't know where to start. So, my question is which information should i gather in order to 
> detect correctly which files were changed and which updates were used.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --haZ
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