Re: Question regarding OpenSSL Security Advisory

2010-11-19 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010, Muhammed Shafeek wrote: In the Advisory it is mentioned that Users of all OpenSSL 0.9.8 releases from 0.9.8f through 0.9.8o should update to the OpenSSL 0.9.8p release which contains a patch to correct this issue. What about users of OpenSSL releases before 0.9.8f ?

Re: Question regarding OpenSSL Security Advisory

2010-11-18 Thread Pandit Panburana
To: openssl-users@openssl.org Cc: Nivedita Melinkeri nivedita...@gmail.com Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 4:15:36 AM Subject: Re: Question regarding OpenSSL Security Advisory On 11/16/2010 11:06 PM, Nivedita Melinkeri wrote: Hi, I had some questions about the latest security advisory. I understand

Re: Question regarding OpenSSL Security Advisory

2010-11-18 Thread David Schwartz
On 11/18/2010 7:26 AM, Pandit Panburana wrote: I am not clear about the condition that vulnerability when using internal session caching mechanism. Is it the same thing as TLS session caching or this is some thing different? The internal session caching mechanism caches TSL session

Re: Question regarding OpenSSL Security Advisory

2010-11-18 Thread Nivedita Melinkeri
Schwartz dav...@webmaster.com *To:* openssl-users@openssl.org *Cc:* Nivedita Melinkeri nivedita...@gmail.com *Sent:* Wed, November 17, 2010 4:15:36 AM *Subject:* Re: Question regarding OpenSSL Security Advisory On 11/16/2010 11:06 PM, Nivedita Melinkeri wrote: Hi, I had some questions about

Re: Question regarding OpenSSL Security Advisory

2010-11-18 Thread Nivedita Melinkeri
-- *From:* David Schwartz dav...@webmaster.com *To:* openssl-users@openssl.org *Cc:* Nivedita Melinkeri nivedita...@gmail.com *Sent:* Wed, November 17, 2010 4:15:36 AM *Subject:* Re: Question regarding OpenSSL Security Advisory On 11/16/2010 11:06 PM, Nivedita

Re: Question regarding OpenSSL Security Advisory

2010-11-18 Thread Pandit Panburana
From: David Schwartz dav...@webmaster.com To: openssl-users@openssl.org Cc: Nivedita Melinkeri nivedita...@gmail.com Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 4:15:36 AM Subject: Re: Question regarding OpenSSL Security Advisory On 11/16/2010 11:06 PM, Nivedita Melinkeri wrote

Re: Question regarding OpenSSL Security Advisory

2010-11-18 Thread Muhammed Shafeek
In the Advisory it is mentioned that Users of all OpenSSL 0.9.8 releases from 0.9.8f through 0.9.8o should update to the OpenSSL 0.9.8p release which contains a patch to correct this issue. What about users of OpenSSL releases before 0.9.8f ? Isn't the vulnerability applicable there as well?

Re: Question regarding OpenSSL Security Advisory

2010-11-17 Thread David Schwartz
On 11/16/2010 11:06 PM, Nivedita Melinkeri wrote: Hi, I had some questions about the latest security advisory. I understand that this applies to multi-threaded application while using ssl sessions. Correct. If the application is written thread safe using CRYPTO_set_locking_callback

Re: Question regarding OpenSSL Security Advisory

2010-11-16 Thread Nivedita Melinkeri
Hi, I had some questions about the latest security advisory. I understand that this applies to multi-threaded application while using ssl sessions. If the application is written thread safe using CRYPTO_set_locking_callback functions will the vulnerability still apply ? If the ssl code calls