Re: heartbleed OpenSSL bug CVE-2014-0160

[Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf () coredump cx>]

> How realistic is it that an attacker would be able to glean passwords through
> this vulnerability?

Highly.

> Programatically searching through 64k memory dumps for
> certificates seems plausible, but looking for passwords does not. A password is
> of no pre-determined length or format.

HTTP POST requests have a very specific and distinctive format that
makes it very easy to automatically spot web app login attempts if you
happen to stumble upon one. On top of that, the nature of this
vulnerability makes it relatively easy to stumble upon snippets of
requests made by other users (whereas the leak of crypto keys appears
to be considerably less likely under normal circumstances).

/mz

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