[HN] Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory

[Razer]

Update @Clodflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/incident-report-on-memory-leak-caused-by-cloudflare-parser-bug/

Rr

Ps. Portals (AOL etc) & dDos prevention sites like Cloudflare, Akmai 
(etc) intrinsically defeat the purpose of 'distributed networking' 
TCP/IP was designed for! Suckers. If you were on Arpanet you'd still 
have distributed networking. But they can't allow that sort of 
freedom-of-information-transfer now can they... Citizen?


On 02/23/2017 07:06 PM, Mirimir wrote:
> So tptacek's comment summarizes it well:
>
> | Oh, my god.
> |
> | Read the whole event log.
> |
> | If you were behind Cloudflare and it was proxying sensitive data
> | (the contents of HTTP POSTs, &c), they've potentially been spraying
> | it into caches all across the Internet; it was so bad that Tavis
> | found it by accident just looking through Google search results.
> |
> | The crazy thing here is that the Project Zero people were joking
> | last night about a disclosure that was going to keep everyone at
> | work late today. And, this morning, Google announced the SHA-1
> | collision, which everyone (including the insiders who leaked that
> | the SHA-1 collision was coming) thought was the big announcement.
> |
> | Nope. A SHA-1 collision, it turns out, is the minor security news
> | of the day.
> |
> | This is approximately as bad as it ever gets. A significant number
> | of companies probably need to compose customer notifications; it's,
> | at this point, very difficult to rule out unauthorized disclosure
> | of anything that traversed Cloudflare.
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718752
>