Re: [libreoffice-users] Heartbleed

On 04/17/2014 04:13 PM, Cley Faye wrote:
> 2014-04-17 21:52 GMT+02:00 Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>:
>
> > This is an OpenSSL bug, what does this have to do with Libreoffice?
>
> ​As far as I can tell, it's because LibreOffice was linked with a
> "vulnerable" version of openssl.
>
> It's never bad to be on the side of precautions by using the latest
> versions (especially if it provides bugfixes), but I'm not sure how an
> exploit on the server side of a TLS connection could cause issue in a
> client software. Better safe than sorry I suppose.

Even some of MS's web based look-up for running some of their packages 
were affected by this bug and the certificate changes associated with 
the "fix".  At least IE is giving me those types of errors with a few 
support phone calls I have had in the last week or so.

Any package that need to access "anything" that used the older version 
of OpenSSL for any part of its inner workings can be at issue and 
vulnerable.  How much it is is a guessing game, according to everything 
I have read, since each tell me a wide range of answers.

So, fixing the web sites is just the start.

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