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Heartbleed is a security bug in some outdated versions of the OpenSSL cryptography library, which is a widely used implementation of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. It was introduced into the software in 2012 and publicly disclosed in April 2014.
English: Explanation of the Heartbleed bug: In a normal Heartbeat request, the user queries the server saying "if you are really there, send me this four-letter word: "blah"" and the server answers with the message "blah" (consisting of four letters).
By Jim Finkle BOSTON, April 10 (Reuters) - Hackers could crack email systems, security firewalls and possibly mobile phones through the "Heartbleed" computer bug, according to security experts who ...
A logo representing the Heartbleed bug. OpenSSL versions 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f have a severe memory handling bug in their implementation of the TLS Heartbeat Extension that could be used to reveal up to 64 KB of the application's memory with every heartbeat [75] [76] (CVE-2014-0160).
Shellshock, also known as Bashdoor, [1] is a family of security bugs [2] in the Unix Bash shell, the first of which was disclosed on 24 September 2014.Shellshock could enable an attacker to cause Bash to execute arbitrary commands and gain unauthorized access [3] to many Internet-facing services, such as web servers, that use Bash to process requests.
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English: A simple explanation of the Heartbleed bug, inspired by xkcd comic #1354. Intended for use on Heartbleed. It shows a user requesting a heartbeat from the server in a normal usage scenario and a malicious usage scenario. The user and server are represented by simple geometric shapes.
Forward secrecy protects data on the transport layer of a network that uses common transport layer security protocols, including OpenSSL, [1] when its long-term secret keys are compromised, as with the Heartbleed security bug.