On Nov 21, 2011, at 12:01 , Bodo Moeller wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Marco Molteni <mmolt...@cisco.com> wrote:
>  
> The OpenSSL security advisory of 2011-09-06 
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-announce@openssl.org/msg00108.html), 
> regarding "TLS ephemeral ECDH crashes in OpenSSL" states that the issue, for 
> branch 0.9.8, applies to "OpenSSL 0.9.8 through 0.9.8s".
> 
> I understand that for branch 0.9.8 the workaround is to "disable ephemeral 
> ECDH ciphersuites if you have enabled them", and that one should use branch 
> 1.0.0. I just want to double check the status of the 0.9.8 branch and 
> understand if it is still maintained or not.
> 
> If I look at the repository for opensslv.h, branch 0.9.8 moved from 0.9.8r 
> release to 0.9.8s-dev on 2011-02-08, and as of today it is still 0.9.8s-dev. 
> This means that the day that 0.9.8s becomes release, it will still be 
> vulnerable to the "TLS ephemeral ECDH crashes in OpenSSL"? Or am I missing 
> something? Is because by default 0.9.8 doesn't enable ephemeral ECDH ?
> 
> Sorry -- you've found an error in the advisory (which I'm fixing right now, 
> in the advisory as found at http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20110906.txt). 
>  When writing the advisory, I must have thought that 0.9.8s was the latest 
> released version in that branch, when really that's 0.9.8r.  0.9.8s, when 
> released, will contain the fixes.
> 
> Bodo
> 

Hey Bodo,

you may want to contact Mitre or equivalent since the CVE still lists 0.9.8s as 
vulnerable.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3210


marco



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