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Heartbleed

name

Etymology

Blend of heartbeat (“periodic signal generated to indicate normal operation of hardware or software”) + bleed.

  1. inherited from *blōþijaną✻ — “to bleed”
  2. inherited from *blōdijan✻
  3. inherited from blēdan — “to bleed”
  4. inherited from bleden
  5. compounded as heartbleed — “heartbeat + bleed”

Definitions

  1. A security bug in OpenSSL, where more data can be read than should be allowed, which was…

    A security bug in OpenSSL, where more data can be read than should be allowed, which was disclosed and fixed in April 2014.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Heartbleed. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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