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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: What is this "heartbleed" bug I've been hearing about?
by
Klestin
on 11/04/2014, 15:26:16 UTC
Openssl is a library that is shipped with a lot of OSes and basically allowed an attacker to dump 64Kb of your memory and it could do it in a loop this would allow access to entropy and store variable like SSL private keys. This is really an issue of putting too much trust in a single library.

Ahh okay, thanks for explaining it to me. So with this bug, they could steal your wallet private key?

The short answer is [redacted].

They could potentially steal any information posted to a web site which had the vulnerability.  In some cases, they could steal the server's certificate, which might allow them to impersonate the server (better phishing attacks).

Edit: It looks like 0.9.0 may have been vulnerable under certain circumstances. See posts by users smarter than I for details.