Re: noob question: mulberry affected by heartbleed bug?

Alex Bligh <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:16:10 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.mulberry.user
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On 22 Apr 2014, at 12:54, Kenneth Porter wrote:

>> 
>> as already written in the subject i wonder if mulberry is affected by the
>> heartbleed bug...
> 
> Mulberry is not a server, so it's not directly affected.

My understanding is that heartbleed affects clients too:

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/55249/what-clients-are-proven-to-be-vulnerable-to-heartbleed

You would have to fake DNS to make a client connect to an evil server, but that's easy enough a hotspot environment.

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Alex Bligh