The Revenge of Buffer Overflows

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Fri Apr 11 18:37:57 EDT 2014


Ben-

Friday, April 11, 2014, 10:29:12 AM, you wrote:

> While we're on comic responses to Heartbleed, the latest xkcd is the most
> concise explanation of the bug I've seen.

> http://xkcd.com/1354/

> (I can't vouch for its accuracy.)

Exactly. Randall's got it right - here's a short video explaining
what's behind this.

http://info.elastica.net/2014/04/openssl-heartbeat-vulnerability/

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-Mark Wieder
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