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Re: Finding Servers Using OpenSSL SSL/TLS


From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:15:41 -0400

On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:24:33 -0000, "Scherck, Daniel" said:

The result should spit back a few lines listing the TLS Extensions detected
on the server, and as long as there isn't one that says "heartbeat" you should
be ok.

Note that there's two sets of patches on the loose - many vendors
backported a quick-and-dirty patch that simply disables heartbeat.
However, if your remediation was to upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.1g, you
have a heartbeat that includes the missing bounds check.  So it *is*
possible to false-positive - not all boxes that say "heartbeat" are
in fact vulnerable.

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