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

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? Th

Re: Question regarding OpenSSL Security Advisory

2010-11-18 Thread Pandit Panburana
Thank you David and Nivedita. I think I got it. -Pandit From: Nivedita Melinkeri To: Pandit Panburana Cc: openssl-users@openssl.org Sent: Thu, November 18, 2010 1:53:22 PM Subject: Re: Question regarding OpenSSL Security Advisory Hey Pandit, > So

Re: Question regarding OpenSSL Security Advisory

2010-11-18 Thread Nivedita Melinkeri
ism. Is it the same thing as TLS session >> caching or this is some thing different? >> >> Thank you, >> - Pandit >> >> -- >> *From:* David Schwartz >> *To:* openssl-users@openssl.org >> *Cc:* Nivedita Melinkeri >&g

Re: Question regarding OpenSSL Security Advisory

2010-11-18 Thread Nivedita Melinkeri
> *From:* David Schwartz > *To:* openssl-users@openssl.org > *Cc:* Nivedita Melinkeri > *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,

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 information

Re: Question regarding OpenSSL Security Advisory

2010-11-18 Thread Pandit Panburana
Cc: Nivedita Melinkeri 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 > that this applies to multi

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 functions

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 th