| 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
| ||
|
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 08:39:35 +0200 From: Menso Heus <heus@...epressunlimited.org> To: craig@...eaunetworks.com Cc: fulldisclosure@...lists.org Subject: Re: [FD] heartbleed OpenSSL bug CVE-2014-0160 On 10 apr. 2014, at 00:32, Craig Holmes <craig@...eaunetworks.com> wrote: > On April 8, 2014 10:21:34 AM Matthew Musingo wrote: >> Even if your systems were patched an attacker could have already attained >> the secrets. >> >> Certs and other sensitive information need to be reconsidered for >> replacement or changed > How realistic is it that an attacker would be able to glean passwords through > this vulnerability? Programatically searching through 64k memory dumps for > certificates seems plausible, but looking for passwords does not. A password is > of no pre-determined length or format. So unless you know what strings are > wrapped around it (and those strings are reliably presented), isn't the loss > of some types of sensitive information.... unlikely? >From poking at a very popular free e-mail service that only recently patched, here's an example of some of the data that got returned: /config/pwtoken_get?src=emailimap&ts=12345&login=foo&passwd=bar& As you can see, figuring out what strings are wrapped around it is trivial and I am assuming that there are people out there who did nothing but trying to extract this information in an automized way. Cookies too got passed this way. Change your passwords :) Menso _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists