From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Ruby / OpenSSL security issue Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:05:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20160920190502.GB16683@jasmine> References: <20160920020636.GA17224@jasmine> <572d28c9-2d87-faa8-651e-cfd8698c3125@uq.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47607) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmQM0-0001Tb-JZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:05:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmQLw-0004ct-Bs for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:05:15 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:46021) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmQLv-0004XB-5P for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:05:12 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <572d28c9-2d87-faa8-651e-cfd8698c3125@uq.edu.au> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ben Woodcroft Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org 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? :)