From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Woodcroft Subject: Re: Ruby / OpenSSL security issue Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:17:42 +1000 Message-ID: <572d28c9-2d87-faa8-651e-cfd8698c3125@uq.edu.au> References: <20160920020636.GA17224@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41354) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmDRX-0005BP-6z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 01:18:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmDRS-0001s0-2O for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 01:18:06 -0400 Received: from mailhub1.soe.uq.edu.au ([130.102.132.208]:33511 helo=newmailhub.uq.edu.au) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bmDRR-0001mA-FH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 01:18:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160920020636.GA17224@jasmine> 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: Leo Famulari , guix-devel@gnu.org 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. ben