Re: OpenSSL Security Advisory

2009-01-07 Thread Kyle Hamilton
Does the release of 0.9.8j also include the FIPS module support? (i.e., is this a bug-fix only release, or does this include what you have been working on for the past few months as well?) -Kyle H On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Ha

Re: OpenSSL Security Advisory

2009-01-07 Thread Brad House
> Does the release of 0.9.8j also include the FIPS module support? > (i.e., is this a bug-fix only release, or does this include what you > have been working on for the past few months as well?) The actual 0.9.8j release announcement stated: "This is the first full release of OpenSSL that can lin

Re: OpenSSL Security Advisory

2009-01-08 Thread Harakiri
--- On Wed, 1/7/09, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > Incorrect checks for malformed signatures > - --- It is not perfectly clear to me if regular certificate validiations and smime signature validiation is also affected by this. Could you please elaborate if

Re: OpenSSL Security Advisory

2009-01-09 Thread Remo Inverardi
One way to exploit this flaw would be for a remote attacker who is in control of a malicious server or who can use a 'man in the middle' attack to present a malformed SSL/TLS signature from a certificate chain to a vulnerable client, bypassing validation. In my opinion, this statement is not ver

Re: OpenSSL Security Advisory

2009-01-09 Thread Ger Hobbelt
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: [...] > diff -ur openssl-0.9.8i-ORIG/apps/speed.c openssl-0.9.8i/apps/speed.c [...] > diff -ur openssl-0.9.8i-ORIG/ssl/ssltest.c openssl-0.9.8i/ssl/ssltest.c 0.9.9 CVS head (and probably 0.9.8 as well): for completeness sake there's one mo