How to detect if your server is vulnerable to the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug and fix it

This is a serious bug affecting a lot of servers including Debian Wheezy. Act fast because everything is being scanned and information is being leaked right now!

The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users.

It’s really easy to use to bug to steal information from affected systems without having any access to it or the network. To check if your server is infected and see what information it is exposing you can use this python script: hb-test.py

To use the script, make sure you have python installed and run the following command:

python hb-test.py www.example.org


Replace www.example.org with the domain you want to test

On an infected server you’ll get results similar to these:


Connecting...
Sending Client Hello...
Waiting for Server Hello...
... received message: type = 22, ver = 0302, length = 58
... received message: type = 22, ver = 0302, length = 2338
... received message: type = 22, ver = 0302, length = 525
... received message: type = 22, ver = 0302, length = 4
Sending heartbeat request...
... received message: type = 24, ver = 0302, length = 16384
Received heartbeat response:
0000: 02 40 00 D8 03 02 53 43 5B 90 9D 9B 72 0B BC 0C [email protected][...r...
0010: BC 2B 92 A8 48 97 CF BD 39 04 CC 16 0A 85 03 90 .+..H...9.......
0020: 9F 77 04 33 D4 DE 00 00 66 C0 14 C0 0A C0 22 C0 .w.3....f.....".
0030: 21 00 39 00 38 00 88 00 87 C0 0F C0 05 00 35 00 !.9.8.........5.
0040: 84 C0 12 C0 08 C0 1C C0 1B 00 16 00 13 C0 0D C0 ................
...
3fd0: 61 74 65 64 50 6C 75 67 69 6E 73 00 A8 02 00 00 atedPlugins.....
3fe0: 29 00 00 00 1C F0 AD B8 1C F0 AD B8 00 FD A8 B8 )...............
3ff0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
 
WARNING: server returned more data than it should - server is vulnerable!


You can also see if you are affected by checking the OpenSSL versions using this command:

apt-cache policy openssl


The results looks similar to this:

openssl:
Installed: 1.0.1e-2+deb7u4
Candidate: 1.0.1e-2+deb7u4
Version table:
*** 1.0.1e-2+deb7u4 0
500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.0.1e-2+deb7u3 0
500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages


Version 1.0.1e-2+deb7u4 in wheezy is affected, so you need to update if you’re using that version

To fix the bug, simply upgrade your system using apt:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade


Now check if the OpenSSL package has been updated by running this command:

apt-cache policy openssl


The results should be like this:

openssl:
Installed: 1.0.1e-2+deb7u6
Candidate: 1.0.1e-2+deb7u6
Version table:
*** 1.0.1e-2+deb7u6 0
500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.0.1e-2+deb7u4 0
500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages


Version 1.0.1e-2+deb7u6 is patched and not vulnerable to Heartbleed