The Heartbleed Bug

What exactly is the Heartbleed

Bug?

2 years ago, a modification was made to OpenSSL, an encryption technology

designed to ensure safe harbor for sensitive data traveling around the Web.

OpenSSL contains a function known as a heartbeat option – while someone is

visiting a website that encrypts data using OpenSSL the computer sends and

receives messages – heartbeat messages - from the server to check it is

connected.

The Heartbleed vulnerability means that hackers can fake heartbeat messages.

By exploiting the vulnerability, hackers sidestep the encryption.

The nature of the attack is similar to a buffer overflow attack, where a remote

attacker exploits a protocol by sending a malformed “heartbeat” request with a

payload size bigger than the actual request. In response, the vulnerable server

returns a heartbeat response that contains a memory block of up to 64KB in the

payload.

This memory block can potentially reveal confidential information, including SSL

private keys, user passwords and more.

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How can I tell if I’m affected?

What everyone needs to do:

Visit the micro site.

• The Heartbleed checker lets you enter the URL of any site to check its

vulnerability. Check on the places you frequent.

Change your passwords.

• Email, social media accounts, banking. Update the log-in info for any

site you use that was affected.

Monitor.

• Keep an eye out for unusual activity.

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What security professionals need to do:

Next budget planning

• If considering an open-source security solution vs. a commercial / proprietary, add to your risk and cost calculations the potential damages created by open-source. TCO and ROI models may change considerably based on this item.

Next Security Review

• Don’t be fooled by 3rd party audit, compliance and validation processes. Understand the known risks, build proper security architecture, and run penetration tests.

Next Steps

• Review your security architecture. There is always a room to improve. Have you considered Web Application Firewall? IPS solution or DLP? None of them are perfect but the multi-layer approach may save the day.

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One of my servers is vulnerable.

What should I do?

1. Immediately upgrade all of your vulnerable servers to the

latest version.

2. Once all systems are upgraded and found to be non-

vulnerable, reissue all certificates that were used.

3. Replace all passwords for both

internal and customer use.

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Upgrading may take me months.

How do I stop this vulnerability?

Security Advisory

Ensure that you are running a non-vulnerable version

Vulnerability Description

The (1) TLS and (2) DTLS implementations in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1g do not

properly handle Heartbeat Extension packets, which allows remote attackers to

obtain sensitive information from process memory via crafted packets that trigger a

buffer over-read, aka the Heartbleed bug.

More details can be found at:

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0160

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-0160

Vulnerability Exposure

The impact of the vulnerability depends on the actual OpenSSL version in use.

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Are my Radware products

vulnerable?

We've tested all of our products.

The Radware Alteon, AppDirector, DefensePro and

DefenseSSL are not vulnerable to the attack.

Specific versions of our Web Application Firewall AppWall and

the Web Performance Optimization solution FastView were

found vulnerable to Heartbleed data-leakage and have been

updated.

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For more information on Heartbleed and how we’re protecting our

customers, read our press release.

Thank You www.radware.com