Friday, January 31, 2020

Re: How did it happen?

January 30, 2020 4:44 PM, gilles@poolp.org wrote:

> It depends on your configuration, not all setups are vulnerable.
>
> I think I recall your name from the comments on my tutorial and this is a
> setup that would not be vulnerable for example. The bug still exists, but
> it can't be used to exploit the same code path.
>
> You should update, this is not something you want to rely on.
>
> I'm writing a _very_ detailed post-mortem which will go into the details,
> I just want to give it a few days to make sure it is as informative as it
> should.
>


As promised, I have written a (too much ?) detailed write-up about the recent event:

https://poolp.org/posts/2020-01-30/opensmtpd-advisory-dissected/

Hope it clarifies what happened and plans for the future.

Gilles

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