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Re: OpenSSL Vulnerabilities

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Rescorla)
Fri Aug 2 14:35:45 2002

To: Tina Bird <tbird@precision-guesswork.com>
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com, cert@cert.org, <tsg@shmoo.com>
Reply-To: EKR <ekr@rtfm.com>
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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: 01 Aug 2002 22:56:12 -0700
In-Reply-To: Tina Bird's message of "Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:29:14 +0000 (GMT)"
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Tina Bird <tbird@precision-guesswork.com> writes:

> The vendors listed in the CERT advisory on the OpenSSL vulnerabilities are
> all producing server-side software:
> 
> http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-23.html
> 
> Does anyone know if Netscape, Opera, Internet Explorer or any of the other
> browsers are vulnerable to these issues?
Netscape and IE both have their own TLS implementations. Netscape uses
NSS and IE uses CAPI/SChannel. Of course, these implementations might
be vulnerable to similar bugs but there's no specific reason to think
they are.

-Ekr

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[Eric Rescorla                                   ekr@rtfm.com]
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