OpenSSL bufffer overflow

[Mike Tancsa]

At 12:05 PM 10/5/2007, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
>On 2007.10.03 19:49:31 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > At 05:43 PM 9/28/2007, Stefan Esser wrote:
> >> I did not see any commits to the OpenSSL code, recently; is anybody
> >> going to commit the fix?
> >>
> >> See http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480855/30/0 for details ...
> >
> > How serious is this particular issue ? Is it easily exploitable, or
> > difficult to do ?  Are some apps more at risk of exploitation 
> than others ?
> > e.g. ssh,apache ?
>
>(/me kicks mutt again for not showing new mails in mailboxes...)
>
>Anyway, I don't think it's very likely many people are affected by
>this since not many programs call SSL_get_shared_ciphers().  No
>application in the base system calls SSL_get_shared_ciphers acording
>to grep, other than openssl(1)'s built in ssl client/server.
>
>I also did a quick grep in apache 2.2 (I think it was 2.2) and it
>didn't reference the function either, but this was a quick check so if
>it matters to anyone, check yourself.

Thanks!  I did the same grep, but wasnt sure whether or not that 
particular function (SSL_get_shared_ciphers) got called by another 
function in OpenSSL which was originally called by some of the big 
apps like sendmail,apache and sshd

         ---Mike