Bug#547092: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#547092: nrpe ssl security problem

2013-02-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 00:26 +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > In fact nothing is new here and security wouldn't change much with different > keys. The implementation ist just broken. But if you have an idea to improve > it, feel free to send a patch. (as long as it doesn't make nrpe incompatible > to

Bug#547092: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#547092: nrpe ssl security problem

2013-02-07 Thread Markus Frosch
Just my 2 cents (without any hat on): TLS integration in NRPE was broken from the beginning and more or less by design. The "real" and only security feature is to configure a appropriate allowed_hosts list, which might be enough security for internal networks in respect of TCP sessions. Question

Bug#547092: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#547092: nrpe ssl security problem

2013-02-07 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Thu, 07 Feb 2013, Matt Taggart wrote: > As pointed out in a previous message to the bug, #547092 > "nagios-nrpe-server: Insecure 'SSL' option, key identical for all > debian systems" is severity grave due to the security problem it > introduces in the service (but not critical since the problem