Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability

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On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 08:38:11AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:15:04 -0400 Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > 
> > > Roger wrote:
> > >
> > > > It happened. It was known for years.
> > >
> > > Everything I have seen says it has been known for about 1 week.
> > >
> > > Incidentally, I am no programmer but I would have thought
> > > it would be relatively simple to set up a test
> > > to see if a "malloc"-ed space could be transgressed.
> > >
> > 
> > Not in this case.  openssl uses a custom malloc
> > 
> 
> So, a valgrind -tool=memcheck --leak-check=yes --show-reachable=yes
> --track-fds=yes --track-origins=yes would not have helped?

AFAIU this is not a memory leak; it is a buffer overflow: lack of bounds
checking.  I do not think valgrind (or any other tool) can help with
that.  Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

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