Version 1.0.10 of Mandos is released: SECURITY BUG FIX!

Teddy Hogeborn teddy at fukt.bsnet.se
Sun May 17 16:45:13 CEST 2009


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Teddy Hogeborn <teddy at fukt.bsnet.se> writes:

> Bug Impact and Recovery
> =======================
[...]
> Paranoia level 1: Change the Mandos client keys (since they have
>                   been readable), and change the encrypted root file
>                   system password (since it's possible it has been
>                   revealed).  The procedure is roughly as follows:
>                   
>                   * Run the following commands on the Mandos client:
[...]

I forgot to add the last step of the paranoia level 1 procedure:
After creating new Mandos client keys, run the command
"update-initramfs -k all -u" on the Mandos client to rebuild the
initrd image file to contain the new keys.

Again, we apologise for the inconvenience.

/Teddy Hogeborn

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