[Cryptography] The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in OpenSSL

[Tom Mitchell]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Edwin Chu <edwincheese at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> A latest story for OpenSSL
>
> http://heartbleed.com/
>
> The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL
> cryptographic software library.
>
> rutro...

https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt

OpenSSL Security Advisory [07 Apr 2014]
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TLS heartbeat read overrun (CVE-2014-0160)
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A missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension can be
used to reveal up to 64k of memory to a connected client or server.

Only 1.0.1 and 1.0.2-beta releases of OpenSSL are affected including
1.0.1f and 1.0.2-beta1.

Thanks for Neel Mehta of Google Security for discovering this bug and to
Adam Langley <agl at chromium.org> and Bodo Moeller <bmoeller at acm.org> for
preparing the fix.

Affected users should upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.1g. Users unable to immediately
upgrade can alternatively recompile OpenSSL with -DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS.

1.0.2 will be fixed in 1.0.2-beta2.


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