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Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by pjjw on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @10:42AM (#7553675)
amazon's response on this has been absolutely disgusting. we pay for their enterprise support, and that team is completely unaware. last night they advised that if i wanted this fixed in a day i should consider terminating my own ssl. i set that up, and as soon as i was about to cut over, i noticed that our elbs were fixed.

as of now, support is unaware there is a fix being rolled out.

i would have been better served not speaking to them, let alone paying for aws support.

Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by flyt on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @11:59AM (#7554188)
We've had the exact opposite experience: After reaching out to Amazon our ELBs were prioritized for the fix and patched with no work needed on our part within <8 hours. Our rep has been in constant contact the whole time.
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by pjjw on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @01:16PM (#7554708)
did you contact your account rep or go through support? if the former, that makes sense. ours is traveling..
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by flyt on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @05:03PM (#7555997)
We filed a ticket through support and also contacted our rep, referencing the ticket.
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by ukd1 on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @11:37AM (#7554027)
I've had really mixed experiences with support from them, ranging from this to awesome. Mostly it's been ok - except for their more legacy products. Sucks you wasted your time, but I'm glad it's fixed!
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by toomuchtodo on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @02:10PM (#7554986)
While stock service support is good (EC2, S3, etc), we've had terrible support with Elastic Transcoder. 1 week+ on an issue that completely breaks HLS video encoding. We switched to encoding.com because I get to talk to a human being, over the phone, and aren't put through a support forum.
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by lox on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @04:08AM (#7552062)
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by bradly on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @04:23AM (#7552112)
Our servers in us-west-1 are still showing as vulnerable sometimes. Even with that 99 designs link, if I refresh sometimes if passes and sometimes it fails. Possibly the patch is still being rolled out?
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by eknkc on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @05:00AM (#7552226)
I think they started rolling it out into eu-west too. Our hosts return "vulnerable" 50% of the time now.
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by toomuchtodo on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @02:12PM (#7554999)
You could try creating a new load balancer, attaching your instances to the new ELB, and destroying the at-risk ELB(s).
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by zwily on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @09:09AM (#7553112)
Beware that that tool is often returning that your domain is not vulnerable when really it is. Appears to be a load issue. I'm not confident that any ELBs are patched yet.
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by sleepyhead on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @06:43AM (#7552546)
Not in eu it seems.
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by lox on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @04:13AM (#7552074)
Seems like CloudFront is still vulnerable: http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/#d8u1nmttd4enu.cloudfront.net:4...
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by duongkai on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @05:56AM (#7552409)
According cloudflare blog: Today a new vulnerability was announced in OpenSSL 1.0.1 that allows an attacker to reveal up to 64kB of memory to a connected client or server (CVE-2014-0160). We fixed this vulnerability last week before it was made public. All sites that use CloudFlare for SSL have received this fix and are automatically protected.

[1]http://blog.cloudflare.com/staying-ahead-of-openssl-vulnerab...

Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by bgentry on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @06:05AM (#7552430)
I think you're conflating CloudFlare, the company, and CloudFront, the AWS CDN service.
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by drdaeman on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @09:19AM (#7553170)
In a same manner CloudFlare had it before the disclosure, OpenSSL team should've contacted major GNU distro (Debian, Fedora, Arch) packagers privately and do the announcement as new releases hit the repos (i.e. not having a 4-8 hour window, given the bug's pretty much critical).
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by 001spartan on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @11:06AM (#7553840)
I was under the impression that they did in fact contact package maintainers in addition to companies like CloudFlare.
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by rincebrain on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @11:41AM (#7554060)
Nope; package maintainers said they didn't get notified, and OpenSSL explicitly has no notification mechanism for such things. CF found out because the private entities which found the bug warned them a priori with a request to not disclose it to anyone else. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7549986
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by jeffbarr on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @03:20PM (#7555367)
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by lox on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @03:53AM (#7552014)
Werner posted this:

https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/heartblee...

Wonder where this is even linked from?

Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by mmelin on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @04:03AM (#7552047)
Apparently there is a Security Bulletins page, but I wasn't aware of it until you posted this link. https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/

Just used Zapier to set up a RSS-to-email trigger to get notified about things like this in the future, although Amazon really should be sending them out automatically to customers.

Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by lox on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @04:38AM (#7552156)
Great idea, I just setup an RSS-to-slack trigger for future notifications: http://zpr.io/HSkn
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by raveli on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @06:48AM (#7552558)
Should anyone else find it useful, here's what I'm now using: http://zpr.io/HS5f

It detects new AWS security bulletin items and notifies you via Google Hangout.

Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by tlogan on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @01:00PM (#7554621)
Great!

./heartbleeder zapier.com

VULNERABLE - zapier.com:443 has the heartbeat extension enabled and is vulnerable to CVE-2014-0160

Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by bryanh on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @01:31PM (#7554809)
AWS's ELB (which we use) were vulnerable, we'll be replacing certificates ASAP. We (and most the rest of the internet using ELB) seem to be in the clear now:

    ./heartbleeder zapier.com
    SECURE - zapier.com:443 has the heartbeat extension enabled, but timed out after a malformed heartbeat (this likely means that it is not vulnerable)
When did you run your check? Do you have a recent binary of heartbleeder?
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by nicwolff on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @11:57AM (#7554171)
That'd be great, except the last thing in the RSS feed at feed://aws.amazon.com/rss/security.rss is almost a year old ಠ_ಠ
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by _mikz on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @04:29AM (#7552133)
How CloudFlare got patched last week and AWS not?
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by tszming on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @05:35AM (#7552331)
I am also interested to know why CloudFlare is ahead of those major Linux distributions on this.
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by hrrsn on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @05:47AM (#7552376)
Simple. Someone alerted them ahead of time since they terminate a lot of SSL connections. Testing with distros is a lot harder.
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by tszming on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @09:39AM (#7553296)
CloudFlare will not terminate SSL for free users - only for the paid plans. I will be also surprised if they really terminate more SSL connections than AWS ELB & CloudFront. I am not saying CloudFlare did anything wrong - they are doing great this time. I am wondering if other parties like AWS received the disclosure at the same time, what they are waiting? CloudFlare fixed the issue last week, not yesterday.
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Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by jgrahamc on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @06:18AM (#7552462)
Are you asking why CloudFlare published their (our) blog post when we did? We did because the OpenSSL project had issued their advisory on the vulnerability already.

I personally observed the OpenSSL disclosure on this on the New page of Hacker News prior to our blog post being made live (and prior to submitting it to HN). You can also verify this yourself by following the New page backwards.

Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by Igalze on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @06:43AM (#7552540)
I think that the question was, how come CF knew about this while other providers did not? I would assume that AWS would be on the short list...
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by acdha on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @09:41AM (#7553303)
Given that the OpenSSL team has slacked massively on setting up an advanced notification list, would you consider notifying distributions privately the next time you received word of something of this magnitude?
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by justincormack on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @12:02PM (#7554208)
Not if they agreed not to disclose it, there is a lot of trust involved here.
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by acdha on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @12:27PM (#7554395)
True, although if nothing a discrete “You want full staffing ready for something bad next week” would have been polite.

The bigger question, though, is how much trust you can have with the kind of people who would zero-day most of the internet for a marketing exercise. Discrete notifications would have closed the vulnerability window for a lot of people (think e.g. stealthy AWS, Rackspace, etc. upgrades) and it's not clear to me that Codenomicon is likely to produce future tips of such value as to outweigh that.

Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by Igalze on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @01:52PM (#7554905)
This comment is better than 99% of the media coverage I've seen so far. Who announces a crucial SSL vulnerability that affects Twitter, AWS, Steam, Yahoo and Dropbox without notifying them first? They are making a name for themselves by exposing private information of millions of internet users. Also, I find it interesting that the vulnerability was discovered by Google's researcher and some of their main competitors weren't notified about it.
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by jensnockert on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @04:09AM (#7552066)
Heroku is also still vulnerable, which makes me slightly uncomfortable.
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by whatts on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @04:19AM (#7552093)
Me too. And I feel they won't be the fastest here ... Certainly a downside of Heroku, where you cannot just re-compile and fix things yourself.
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by cardmagic on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @04:41AM (#7552165)
There are new tools[1] being built around Docker that make it viable to easily move your apps out of Heroku and onto any system running Docker including DigitalOcean, GCE, AWS, etc.

When you combine Docker, buildpacks, and CoreOS[2], you get a scalable and flexible platform that you can run anywhere. It has taken people a long time to combine the simplicity of Heroku with the flexibility of bare metal, but the open source guys have finally put all the building blocks together.

[1] https://github.com/CenturyLinkLabs/building/

[2] http://www.centurylinklabs.com/building-your-first-app-on-co...

Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by bacongobbler on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @09:14AM (#7553141)
Another tool that does just this would be Deis[1]. We specifically combine CoreOS (in heavy development[2]), Docker, Heroku Buildpacks, and also Dockerfile deployments[3], too!

[1]: http://deis.io/

[2]: https://github.com/opdemand/deis/issues/530

[3]: http://docs.deis.io/en/latest/developer/dockerfile/#deploy-u...

Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by bdcravens on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @04:51AM (#7552192)
I've been experimenting with Cloud66 the past few days to accomplish much of the same thing, and am pretty happy with the result.
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by fomb on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @12:52PM (#7554563)
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by friism on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @02:07PM (#7554973)
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by madaxe_again on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @10:53AM (#7553759)
We have over 200 ELBs, and therefore over 200 SSL certificates to go and manually replace. Time for gin.
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by ukd1 on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @11:35AM (#7554014)
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by madaxe_again on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @11:51AM (#7554122)
Oh, we automate that end of things, our cloud is all chef managed... but getting 200 certs re-issued by a dozen different issuers with new private keys is, how you say, tedious.
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by toomuchtodo on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @02:11PM (#7554995)
Yep. Still time for $drinkOfChoice. I threw my whole todo list for today out the window this morning.
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by wwarren on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @09:29AM (#7553225)
I have 3 ELBs. 1 seems fixed, and the other 2 still vulnerable...get your shit together Amazon!
Re:Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed by jmathai on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @01:40PM (#7554850)
I manually created a new ELB which seemed to have been fixed and then updated DNS.