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Comment by gsnedders

12 years ago

Because it was already disclosed the instant the OpenSSL release went out and the fix was public.

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whyleyc  12 years ago

Well someone was able to give Cloudflare a heads up last week [1].

It would have been nice if the package maintainers could have had time to build ready-to-roll solutions with Heartbeat compiled out prior to the official OpenSSL fix.

[1] http://blog.cloudflare.com/staying-ahead-of-openssl-vulnerab...

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