Re: [Ledger-smb-users] My Assessment of the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug and LedgerSMB

2014-04-11 Thread Chris Travers
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Richard Hector wrote: > > > Heartbleed isn't a problem with the encryption though; the encryption > > didn't get broken. Any protocol could probably potentially suffer from a > > buffer overflow due to a bug in the softwar

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] My Assessment of the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug and LedgerSMB

2014-04-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Richard Hector wrote: > Heartbleed isn't a problem with the encryption though; the encryption > didn't get broken. Any protocol could probably potentially suffer from a > buffer overflow due to a bug in the software. Given this one leaked info > from the server process, who's

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] My Assessment of the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug and LedgerSMB

2014-04-11 Thread ario
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 19:15:00 +1200 Richard Hector wrote: > On 11/04/14 09:41, ario wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:04:27 +0200 > > Pongrácz István wrote: > > > >> > What if they implemented this "feature" to be able to get > >> > information without trace? : > > Then they would have succ

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] My Assessment of the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug and LedgerSMB

2014-04-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 11/04/14 09:41, ario wrote: > On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:04:27 +0200 > Pongrácz István wrote: > >> > What if they implemented this "feature" to be able to get information >> > without trace? : > Then they would have succeeded spectacularly with us thinking "there is > a bug" in OpenSSL. > >

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] My Assessment of the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug and LedgerSMB

2014-04-10 Thread ario
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:04:27 +0200 Pongrácz István wrote: > What if they implemented this "feature" to be able to get information > without trace? : Then they would have succeeded spectacularly with us thinking "there is a bug" in OpenSSL. My preferred beckup encryption scheme still would

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] My Assessment of the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug and LedgerSMB

2014-04-10 Thread Pongrácz István
What if they implemented this "feature" to be able to get information without trace? : eredeti üzenet- Feladó: "ario" ledger-smb-us...@infopower.nl Címzett: ledger-smb-users@lists.sourceforge.net Dátum: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:01:46 + ---

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] My Assessment of the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug and LedgerSMB

2014-04-10 Thread ario
If I were the NSA or GCHQ, I would have _loved_ to have dropped the developer into the OpenSSL team that coded this 'mistake'. :) ario On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 01:14:07 -0700 Chris Travers wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Many of you may have heard of the recent severe OpenSSL vulnerability > discovered

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] My Assessment of the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug and LedgerSMB

2014-04-10 Thread Chris Travers
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:49 AM, Peter van Bussel wrote: > Ouch! > > > To be clear, we aren't directly affected. The attack is against a web server and there may be plenty of possible and supported configurations that are not affected. However, this is a serious situation even if it is not in ou

Re: [Ledger-smb-users] My Assessment of the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug and LedgerSMB

2014-04-10 Thread Peter van Bussel
Ouch! Peter Van: Chris Travers [mailto:chris.trav...@gmail.com] Verzonden: donderdag 10 april 2014 10:14 Aan: Development discussion for LedgerSMB; LedgerSMB Users; LedgerSMB Onderwerp: [Ledger-smb-users] My Assessment of the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug and LedgerSMB Hi everyone, Many

[Ledger-smb-users] My Assessment of the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug and LedgerSMB

2014-04-10 Thread Chris Travers
Hi everyone, Many of you may have heard of the recent severe OpenSSL vulnerability discovered which allows an attacker significant access to a web server's internal memory. I wanted to share my assessment here as to how this impacts LedgerSMB, what mitigation and recovery measures I would recomme