Re: OpenSSL CVE-2016-2177, CVE-2016-2178

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 10:49:23PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
>> > CVE-2016-2177
>> > http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/500
>> >
>> > CVE-2016-2178
>> > http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/493
>> >
>> > Should we try cherry-picking the upstream commits from the OpenSSL
>> > development repo?
>> 
>> Sounds like it.  Could you look into it?
>
> I've attached my patch.
>
> According to OpenSSL's security policy [0], they seem to consider these
> bugs to be "LOW severity", since they did not keep them private or issue
> a new release, or even an advisory [1].
>
> There is also some discussion of the severity in this thread:
> http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/493
>
> So, perhaps it's not worth the risk of cherry-picking these commits out
> of context, at least not without asking the upstream maintainers.
>
> Thoughts?

I don’t feel qualified to judge the severity of the bug (they do seem
hard to exploit, but I’m no expert.)

Since you’ve already done the work, I think we should simply apply those
fixes.

Makes sense?

Thank you!

Ludo’.