'There is a new, remotely exploitable vulnerability in OpenSSL that could enable an attacker to intercept and decrypt traffic between vulnerable clients and servers. The flaw affects all versions of the OpenSSL client and versions 1.0.1 and 1.0.2-beta1 of the server software. The new vulnerability could only be exploited to decrypt traffic between a vulnerable client and a vulnerable server, and the attacker would need to have a man-in-the-middle position on a network in order to do so. That's not an insignificant set of conditions that must be present for a successful attack, but in the current environment, where open wireless networks are everywhere and many users connect to them without a second thought, gaining a MITM position is not an insurmountable hurdle. Researchers who have looked at the vulnerable piece of code say that it appears to have existed, nearly unchanged, in the OpenSSL source since 1998.'

Edited by billford (Thu 05-Jun-14 21:40:01)

In reply to a post by grahammm:

In reply to a post by caffn8me:

Of course, it's not enough just to upgrade OpenSSL but any applications compiled with it need to be recompiled.

That is not quite accurate. The applications do not need to be recompiled - they just need to be restarted as this will cause them to pick up the new code.