[Wine] WineHQ database compromise

Maarten Lankhorst m.b.lankhorst at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 03:23:58 CDT 2011


Hey,

On 10/12/2011 12:46 AM, Josh Juran wrote:
> On Oct 11, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Josh Juran <josh at iswifter.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Since bugzilla passwords were sent in cleartext anyway, I sincerely hope none of them were otherwise valuable.  (Remember FireSheep?)
>> Wait, what? Bugzilla sends passwords in cleartext? That isn't very smart... Is there no way to replace this with some sort of client based hashing or something?
> To clarify, your browser sends your password to bugzilla in cleartext, since HTTPS isn't an option.
>
> Firesheep was a lesson that even once passwords are secure, session credentials are still vulnerable to sniffing. Some sites went to HTTPS-only sessions after that.
>
If I go to any https://*.winehq.org website I get the certificate for test.winehq.org , otherwise you could use the firefox https anywhere to force https on.

Or better yet, force automatic redirect to https, with Strict-Transport-Security:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/08/firefox-4-http-strict-transport-security-force-https/

If winehq can't get more ips for every subdomain (ssl sucks), would the solution be moving it to https://winehq.org/{bugs,appdb,test,source} ?

Cheers,
Maarten



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