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Re: Heartbleed, clients and Android


From: Eric Lacombe <goretux () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 23:45:44 +0200

Hi,

Le mercredi 9 avril 2014 12:21:29, Hanno Böck a écrit :
[...]
Because the latter
would include Android. We are all pretty aware that android updates
are in large parts nonexistent.

I don't have much clue about Android, but I think I heard heartbeat
was disabled in Android, but I don't have a link right now. Also, I'm
unsure what actually use libssl in Android and what uses NSS.

Seems Android disabled Heartbeat in 2012:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/openssl.git/+/android-4.1
.2_r1

Still leaves some android versions as potentially vulnerable.

A recent post from Google security blog

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.fr/2014/04/google-services-updated-to-address.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:
+GoogleOnlineSecurityBlog+(Google+Online+Security+Blog)

Regards,

        Eric


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