[Pkg-openssl-devel] Re: [jaenicke@openssl.org: Re: Potential security hole in openssl]

Julian Gilbey jdg at polya.uklinux.net
Thu Mar 1 19:00:52 CET 2007


On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:27:49AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Hi,
> FYI, you appear to be not on CC. Please include the originating CCs
> when replying.
> 
> Cheers,
>         Moritz
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Lutz Jaenicke <jaenicke at openssl.org> -----
> 
> From: Lutz Jaenicke <jaenicke at openssl.org>
> To: openssl-team at openssl.org
> Cc: security at debian.org, openssl at packages.debian.org,
> 	openssl-security at openssl.org
> Subject: Re: Potential security hole in openssl
> 
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 
> > I've been trying to get proxytunnel to tunnel via HTTPS.  I've been
> > trying the latest version of proxytunnel (1.7.0, available from
> > proxytunnel.sourceforge.net), but the openssl library segfaults.  (I
> > am working on a Debian testing system.)  I have also tested this on
> > the unstable version - see below.
> > [...]
> 
> Using "openssl s_client -ssl2 -connect localhost:443" does not exhibit
> any problem, it however doesn't do anything with memory allocations
> in the s_client demo application so we might not detect a corruption...
> 
> Can you run give s_client a try? If it crashes we could at least
> rule out proxytunnel...

s_client works fine :-/

burnside:~ $ openssl s_client -ssl2 -connect localhost:443
CONNECTED(00000003)
[...]
    Verify return code: 10 (certificate has expired)
---
CONNECT burnside:8080 HTTP/1.0
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive

HTTP/1.0 200 Connection Established
Proxy-agent: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) mod_python/3.2.10 Python/2.4.4 PHP/5.2.0-8 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8e mod_perl/2.0.2 Perl/v5.8.8

SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-8

burnside:~ $


   Julian



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