OpenSSL Security issues

[stefan.paetow at diamond.ac.uk]

Yowza!!

I'm back in the office tomorrow and will check the CentOS updates. I'll then recompile any of our binary packages immediately.

I'll forward this on.

Stefan

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From: Arran Cudbard-Bell [a.cudbardb at freeradius.org]
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 11:12 PM
To: FreeRadius users mailing list
Subject: Re: OpenSSL Security issues

On 7 Apr 2014, at 23:00, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:

> Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
>> That's really bad. Think we should add a configure time check to prevent
>> the server being built against vulnerable versions?
>
>  https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt
>
> ...  Users unable to immediately
> upgrade can alternatively recompile OpenSSL with -DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS.
>
>  Wow.  The potential side-effects of this problem are enormous.  ANY
> site using TLS for ANYTHING can have ANY memory read by an attacker.
>
>  i.e. secrets, private keys, etc.

Uhuh. That'd be a compile and link time check for FreeRADIUS then.

Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb at freeradius.org>
FreeRADIUS Development Team

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