Re: Steps Involved in counter measurement for security issues

2013-10-16 Thread Sreekanth S. Nair
checked this is not "strust2" list > > > Regards, > Martin > __ > > > > > > > > Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 08:21:28 -0400 > > From: ere...@mail.nysed.gov > > To: user@struts.apache.org > > Subj

RE: Steps Involved in counter measurement for security issues

2013-10-16 Thread Martin Gainty
_ > Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 08:21:28 -0400 > From: ere...@mail.nysed.gov > To: user@struts.apache.org > Subject: Re: Steps Involved in counter measurement for security issues > > First of all, security on web applications is of a c

Re: Steps Involved in counter measurement for security issues

2013-10-16 Thread Eric Reed
First of all, security on web applications is of a concern but not as much as one would think. To find all the security vulnerabilities within any application, or framework, one would find all the entry points which allow user provided data. This could be a field, a protocol, etc. and then one wo

Re: Steps Involved in counter measurement for security issues

2013-10-16 Thread Lukasz Lenart
Ok, so the only option is got through each security bulletin and check provided Proof-of-Concept if it affects your application. And DMI isn't a problem if used wise. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WW/Security+Bulletins 2013/10/16 Sreekanth S. Nair : > Thanks Lukazs, the problem i'm

Re: Steps Involved in counter measurement for security issues

2013-10-16 Thread Sreekanth S. Nair
I don't mean it like that, but something like a proof of concept like http://struts.apache.org/release/2.3.x/docs/s2-016.html -- Thanks & Regards Srikanth Software Developer eGovernments Foundations www.egovernments.org Mob : 9980078913 --

Re: Steps Involved in counter measurement for security issues

2013-10-16 Thread Lukasz Lenart
2013/10/16 Sreekanth S. Nair : > Test Case to test the security vulnerability (major ones) in > struts2-core-2.1.2. Everything you can find is in Struts repository, it's Open Source not a close code software ;-) And there is no the "test" which magically checks security vulnerabilities, even secu

Re: Steps Involved in counter measurement for security issues

2013-10-16 Thread Sreekanth S. Nair
Thanks Lukazs, the problem i'm facing now is our product is so huge to do a migration and running mainly on DMI. I'm unable to convince my top management about how bad strust2 vulnerability is (since i dont know how to replicate the vulnerability). So I have no choice other than option 2. -- Than

Re: Steps Involved in counter measurement for security issues

2013-10-16 Thread Umesh Awasthi
I do not think that is possible. You have 2 options 1. Upgrade you struts2 version. 2. Go through security vulnerability and see what was there and create test cases to see what exactly is happening and fix them by checking patches. But IMO, upgrading to latest version is much more flexible and l

Re: Steps Involved in counter measurement for security issues

2013-10-16 Thread Sreekanth S. Nair
Test Case to test the security vulnerability (major ones) in struts2-core-2.1.2. -- Thanks & Regards Srikanth Software Developer eGovernments Foundations www.egovernments.org Mob : 9980078913 On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Luka

Re: Steps Involved in counter measurement for security issues

2013-10-16 Thread Lukasz Lenart
2013/10/16 Sreekanth S. Nair : > One more doubt, does this security vulnerability is able to bring down the > server :-) ? If we authorize ourselves to apache, is it possible for struts > team to give us test case to check the vulnerability? What you mean by that? What test case you refer to? Re

Re: Steps Involved in counter measurement for security issues

2013-10-16 Thread Sreekanth S. Nair
One more doubt, does this security vulnerability is able to bring down the server :-) ? If we authorize ourselves to apache, is it possible for struts team to give us test case to check the vulnerability? -- Thanks & Regards Srikanth Software Developer eGovernment

Re: Steps Involved in counter measurement for security issues

2013-10-16 Thread Sreekanth S. Nair
Hi, Thanks Lukazs, but that's too much of task to compare rather i can migrate ;-). Thanks Antonios, i will refer those links. -- Thanks & Regards sreekanth On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Antonios Gkogkakis wrote: > Hi Sreekanth, > > Lukasz beat me! >

Re: Steps Involved in counter measurement for security issues

2013-10-16 Thread Antonios Gkogkakis
Hi Sreekanth, Lukasz beat me! If you don't want to upgrade you should at least check the security bulletins http://struts.apache.org/release/2.2.x/docs/security-bulletins.html http://struts.apache.org/release/2.3.x/docs/security-bulletins.html see which vulnerabilities affect you and follow the

Re: Steps Involved in counter measurement for security issues

2013-10-16 Thread Lukasz Lenart
Though task ;-) The only option is to analyse what kind of vulnerabilities were discovered after and which of them can potentially affect your version (given vulnerable functionality exists in your version you use right now). https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WW/Migration+Guide 2013/10

Steps Involved in counter measurement for security issues

2013-10-16 Thread Sreekanth S. Nair
Hi, Due to time and other internal constraints, we are unable to upgrade strust2 to the latest version. So i would like to know if we use old strust2 distro (in my case : struts2-core-2.1.2), what are the counter measurement need to taken care? Regards