[colug-432] Heartbleed Heartburn

[Jim Wildman]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Rob Funk wrote:

>
>> 1.  Anyone know when the major Linux releases will come out with a patch
>>     for Heartbleed?  Will openssl be pulled up to version 1.0.8 or will
>>     they port the patch back to their current version of openssl?

Red Hat released errata on the 8th.

The interesting part will be to see which major service providers
generate new certs and revoke the old ones.  That could lead to a lot of
"teachable moments" for tech support.

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