[TriLUG] Heartbleed SSL vuln: regenerate your ssh host keys?

Thomas V Thomas thomasvt at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 20:34:13 EDT 2014


Looks like login.trilug.org is also vulnerable to this issue.


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Ken MacKenzie <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:

> I need to remember that debian check restart thing.  Thanks!
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:
>
> > As a quick update, note that different distributions are taking different
> > approaches to releasing fixes. For example, in Ubuntu the new package
> seems
> > to be versioned at 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.12. In CentOS the version of libssl
> seems
> > to still be vulnerable (1.0.1e) but the they seem to have simply disabled
> > the heartbeat extension instead of upgrading to the latest version of
> > libssl (openssl-1.0.1e-16.el6_5.7 is the new package where 5.7 means it's
> > been patched).
> >
> > During this process I realized what a mess libssl versioning is and how
> > much every player involved messes with it.
> >
> > On the plus side I learned of a cool utility available for Debian/Ubuntu:
> > `apt-get install debian-goodies`, then run `sudo checkrestart`. This will
> > give you a list of processes whose libraries were upgraded but the
> > processes were not restarted. Very useful, given that in this case it's
> not
> > enough to upgrade libssl: you also must restart every process that uses
> it
> > to start using the new version.
> >
> > Igor
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