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Re: [perfsonar-user] OpenSSL update for PS nodes


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  • From: Jim Warner <>
  • To: "" <>
  • Cc: Mark Tinberg <>
  • Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] OpenSSL update for PS nodes
  • Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 13:10:03 -0700

Jason--

Are new images available for Live-CD and run-from-USB?

Thanks
-jim


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Jason Zurawski <> wrote:
Thank you for the post Mark, you beat my own authorship of a note by about 5 minutes.  We will be passing along information from the upstream vendor shortly.

Thanks;

-jason

On Apr 8, 2014, at 9:28 AM, Mark Tinberg <> wrote:

> Any recently updated perfSONAR 3.3 node is likely vulnerable to a recently discovered issue in OpenSSL 1.0.1 which discloses the private key, hosts which have the issue will need to have a new private key generated and signed after replacing the SSL library.  Data which was transmitted over SSL from the time OpenSSL 1.0.1 was installed (which was available 2013-12-03) such as passwords which could have been intercepted may be decrypted after the fact using the private key (unless the SSLCipherSuite has been modified to only allow ciphers which have Forward Secrecy).
>
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-April/020249.html
>
> further information
>
> http://heartbleed.com/
>
> —
> Mark Tinberg, System Administrator
> Division of Information Technology - Network Services
> University of Wisconsin - Madison
>




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