Serious OpenSSL vulnerability

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:15:04 -0400 Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
> 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
> > Roger wrote:
> >
> > > It happened. It was known for years.
> >
> > Everything I have seen says it has been known for about 1 week.
> >
> > Incidentally, I am no programmer but I would have thought
> > it would be relatively simple to set up a test
> > to see if a "malloc"-ed space could be transgressed.
> >
> 
> Not in this case.  openssl uses a custom malloc
> 

So, a valgrind -tool=memcheck --leak-check=yes --show-reachable=yes
--track-fds=yes --track-origins=yes would not have helped?

Ranjan

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