full-disclosure - Re: [FD] heartbleed OpenSSL bug CVE-2014-0160

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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:02:49 +0200
From: Reindl Harald <h.reindl@...lounge.net>
To: fulldisclosure@...lists.org
Subject: Re: [FD] heartbleed OpenSSL bug CVE-2014-0160


Am 10.04.2014 00:32, schrieb Craig Holmes:
> 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?

it is very realistic and already happened

Anonymous Austria yesterday posted about online banking transactions
with screenshots auf the data-dumps, webmail-accounts and so on
over many hours and for a short tiemframe there where even folder
with thousands of such dumps online


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