full-disclosure - Re: Google Accounts Security Vulnerability

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 13:22:58 -0700
From: "Michael J. Gray" <mgray@...tcode.com>
To: "'Jann Horn'" <jannhorn@...glemail.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Google Accounts Security Vulnerability

That was a bit ambiguous and I apologize for that. I meant that I had
reproduced the issue several times, not created test accounts. I'm willing
to bet it's not just a few accounts being affected. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jann Horn [mailto:jannhorn@...glemail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 4:39 AM
To: Michael J. Gray
Cc: 'Thor (Hammer of God)'; 'Dan Kaminsky';
full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Google Accounts Security Vulnerability

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:04:43PM -0700, Michael J. Gray wrote:
> On why I don't want to provide my email address to Google:
> 
> It's a different email address which I don't want associated with this 
> email address for various reasons. That is why I am not going to provide
it.
> 
> Your assumption that it's a simple piece of information and requires 
> no effort to give out is correct, but the impact of the association is 
> unwanted.

Sounds reasonable.

> The fact that Google can create a test account and reproduce the issue 
> (as I have now done several times) tells me that they want the account 
> information for some other purpose or that they're just being lazy.

So, you now have a test account that doesn't reveal any secrets about you
and which is affected... so you could surely give Google the name of that
one?

_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/