From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ruby / OpenSSL security issue
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:05:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160920190502.GB16683@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <572d28c9-2d87-faa8-651e-cfd8698c3125@uq.edu.au>
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 03:17:42PM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
> On 20/09/16 12:06, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > Ruby users,
> >
> > There is a bug report on Ruby's OpenSSL module regarding IV re-use in
> > AES-GCM mode [0].
> >
> > Does anyone volunteer to investigate the bug report and decide what to
> > do about it for our Ruby package?
>
> Thanks for the report Leo. I don't think much can be done about this until
> a fix is released, no? It is unfortunately been around since March on that
> GitHub page, hopefully the report on oss-sec will spur some action.
Okay, do you volunteer to track this bug upstream? :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-20 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-20 2:06 Ruby / OpenSSL security issue Leo Famulari
2016-09-20 5:17 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-09-20 19:05 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-09-21 1:19 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-09-30 17:32 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-30 23:46 ` Ben Woodcroft
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