[kwlug-disc] Heartbleed affected sites
unsolicited
unsolicited at swiz.ca
Sat Apr 12 16:15:43 EDT 2014
Yep, had caught those aspects.
Keyword being 'potential'. Which is only to say, with the media all
running around with their heads cut off, and only a small subset of such
services you use WITH impacted servers AND real potential harm to you at
exposure IF you have an account worth messing around with more lucrative
than others, there's a lot of FUD out there.
Which is not to say you won't be impacted, nor that it won't hurt when
you are ... but it's not EVERYWHERE for EVERYTHING.
I don't dispute the problem is discerning when it really matters.
I'm only irritated that they put out carte blanche 'change everything'
'just in case'. This, my industry (I.T.), should be able to be rather
more surgical, and less 'there MAY be risk, better safe than sorry'.
Considering the time and expense and potential exposure most everyone is
being told to expend. Most of which is pointless for lack of real
exposure. That's my issue - lots of FUD and noise, most of it, just
noise, and we all have better things to do.
On 14-04-12 12:51 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> Heartbleed extracted whatever happened to be in memory at the time. That
> can be passwords or hashes or anything else.
>
> It is non-specific, but a determined attacker can potentially glean some
> info with persistence.
>
> Also, because the attacker does not need to complete a connection that
> would be logged (e.g. HTTP, ...etc.), this makes the attacks untraceable
> with the usual logs (e.g. web server).
>
> This is what makes it scary: potential information disclosure, and non
> traceablility.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 4:29 AM, unsolicited <unsolicited at swiz.ca
> <mailto:unsolicited at swiz.ca>> wrote:
>
> That's over simplistic.
>
> You can't extract a password that isn't there.
>
> *IF* it is even in the packet you get.
>
> *IF* it was being exploited at the time.
>
> *IF* you are of interest to them.
>
> *IF* they are interested in doing damage to that provider of services.
>
> Lot of IFs. Lot of FUD.
>
> What's being protected?
>
> Will you know?
>
> Will you care?
>
> Not saying now that exploit known they wouldn't run with it.
>
> But patching is simplistic.
>
> I take your point about SSL keys - IF it was in the data returned.
>
> But with properly isolated systems, it should only be the front end
> impacted. On the assumption that nobody inside your firewall is
> exploiting it.
>
> Lots of IFs all around.
>
> But I take your point.
>
>
>
> On 14-04-11 05:44 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
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> If your router is accessible from the WAN port via http then you
> have
> more urgent problems than Heartbleed.
>
> If a site has both http and https then there's no (new)
> vulnerability
> with http, but a Heartbleed attack on https can still extract
> passwords and other info.
>
> To extract a password from an http session a bad guy needs to be a
> man-in-the-middle, or sniffing the network (remember Firesheep?). To
> extract a password with Heartbleed an attacker only has to
> initiate an
> https session.
>
> - --Bob.
>
>
>
> On 14-04-11 05:35 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>
> But, wouldn't Heartbleed be an issue, only if you use SSL on the
> site? For example, if you have OpenWRT/Tomato/DD-WRT and logging
> via http (not https), then there is no exploit via OpenSSL?
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Bob Jonkman
> <bjonkman at sobac.com <mailto:bjonkman at sobac.com>>
> wrote:
>
> If you're using a tool to check for Heartbleed
> vulnerabilities, be
> sure to check the Web interface on your router and/or modem as
> well.
>
> I'm not sure if router vendors are on top of this, but according
> to ssltest.py my Tomato/MLPPP Version 1.25-mp3alpha6 (from
> http://fixppp.org ) is not vulnerable, nor my Thomson Speedtouch
> modem with firmware 6.1.0.5
>
> Also, somebody asked me how safe these vulnerability checking
> tools are, especially the online and Javascript-based ones.
> What's
> to say they're not merely displaying "all is well", and actually
> compiling a list of vulnerable sites for later exploitation?
>
> --Bob.
>
>
> On 14-04-08 12:06 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:>
>
> You can use this python tool ssltest.py to check
> if your
> servers are vulnerable:
>
> $ wget -O ssltest.py
> "http://pastebin.com/raw.php?__i=WmxzjkXJ
> <http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=WmxzjkXJ>"
> $ python ssltest.py example.com <http://example.com>
>
>
>
> On 14-04-11 10:51 AM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>
> Mashable has a list going of sites affected by
> Heartbleed:
>
> http://mashable.com/2014/04/__09/heartbleed-bug-websites-__affected/
> <http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/>
>
>
>
> Don't forget to add Canada Revenue (and most other government
>
> sites) to your list of passwords to change!
>
>
>
>
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