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What they've found is that there's a companion memory leak (CVE-2015-5333) and buffer overflow (CVE-2015-5334) in the SSL replacement candidate.
The researchers from Qualys (their notice published here) said they were trying to see if a remote code execution attack is feasible against vulnerabilities they've turned up in OpenSMTPD (which earlier this month hit version 5.7.3).
“Because we could not find one in OpenSMTPD itself, we started to review the malloc()s and free()s of its libraries, and eventually found a memory leak in LibreSSL's OBJ_obj2txt() function; we then realized that this function also contains a buffer overflow (an off-by-one, usually stack-based).”
The memory leak provides a path for an attacker to cause a denial-of-service attack, and also permits triggering of the buffer overflow.
The LibreSSL team has released fixes for OpenBSD.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday October 20 2015, @04:46PM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Wednesday October 21 2015, @07:21AM
Can you cite actual examples disproving my claims? I like being proven wrong, but I'm not going to be dissuaded by "its no longer true".
I've had to work with a C++14 codebase as of late, and most of the pain is still there, and a lot of other headaches (templates for one) are still a core part of the language, made worse by the fact that all the new stuff is dependent on templates.
Still always moving