Re: heartbleed and httpd configuration

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Steven,

On 4/12/14, 2:15 PM, Steven Siebert wrote:
> I think it would be unlikely because the httpd configuration data
> would be read into memory early on the heap (and in a very low
> volatile area where that memory wouldn't often be freed up), whereas
> the heartbeat would be much later in the heap, and thus the buffer
> overflow would very unlikely effect it.
> 
> You might get a more definitive answer CCing the developer
> distro...since this really isn't a simple "configuration and support"
> question....but they might just ignore the non-dev question.
> 
> If you get the answer off list, please update =)

This is what CloudFire thought, and they dared someone to steal their
key using Heartbleed. 9 hours later...

http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-results-of-the-cloudflare-challenge

Then again, they were using Nginx. But the idea is that everything is
theoretically snoopable via Heartbleed.

-chris

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