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2014-04-10 , 00:22
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Hello,

probably all of you read
http://heartbleed.com/

openssl version
gives
"0.9.8n"
for my N900.


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2014-04-10 , 00:38
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There are advantages to running tried-and-true software.
 

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2014-04-10 , 02:29
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Seeing as I'm going to have to replace all my passwords (had a nice manual system going back 15 years), maybe someone wants to look at fixing KeepassX (not the vulnerability, it never compiled properly in the first place)?

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...keepass&page=2
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2014-04-10 , 16:39
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Clients should be mostly safe from Heartbleed. Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Thunderbird, Internet Explorer don't use OpenSSL, and Apple's version of OpenSSL is not recent enough for it.
The problem is the server side with all those web and application servers, proxy servers, etc. all using OpenSSL.

It's the TLS heartbeat keep-alive code that is vulnerable. KeepassX does not fall into this category, fortunately.
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2014-04-10 , 17:21
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Originally Posted by pycage View Post
KeepassX does not fall into this category, fortunately.
I think fixing KeepassX comment is less about Heartbleed and more about password security in general.

I agree it would be nice to get KeePassX usable on the N900.
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Originally Posted by pycage View Post
Clients should be mostly safe from Heartbleed. Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Thunderbird, Internet Explorer don't use OpenSSL, and Apple's version of OpenSSL is not recent enough for it.
The problem is the server side with all those web and application servers, proxy servers, etc. all using OpenSSL.

It's the TLS heartbeat keep-alive code that is vulnerable. KeepassX does not fall into this category, fortunately.
I suggest looking into this vulnerability, clients may or may not be vulnerable, depending on how TLS handshake is being utilized.

For those interested, try this out
https://github.com/Lekensteyn/pacemaker
 

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2014-04-10 , 20:31
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Looks like the version of OpenSSL in the Nokia repos (and in the Community SSU repos) is so old it doesn't have the bug so it should bev good.
 

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2014-04-11 , 09:15
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Originally Posted by jonwil View Post
Looks like the version of OpenSSL in the Nokia repos (and in the Community SSU repos) is so old it doesn't have the bug so it should bev good.
I did not check all the other CVEs regarding OpenSSL,
but I guess the question is, if there were other security
issues, which make it too old in other aspects?
 

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2014-04-12 , 00:06
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The question to be asked then is, will replacing OpenSSL on the N900 with the newest version break anything and if not, should CSSU do that?
 

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Originally Posted by jonwil View Post
The question to be asked then is, will replacing OpenSSL on the N900 with the newest version break anything and if not, should CSSU do that?
I actually replaced openssl with version 1.0.1e some time ago. AFAIK I compiled it myself, and it's probably vulnerable to Heartbleed (not that I care much anyway).

In any case, nothing (else) broke on my N900 (no CSSU, just somewhat patched 1.3). It's not such a "critical" library that would break something horribly, but with Maemo you never know..
 
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