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Re:Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub by Lt_Riza_Hawkeye on Saturday March 02, 2024 @03:39AM (#39571078)
The heartbleed vulnerability was hidden in plain sight for the better part of a decade, no?
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Re:Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub by gitaarik on Saturday March 02, 2024 @07:10AM (#39572011)
Yes, but that was a memory leak, giving access to unauthorized random memory. That is not an intentionally created exploit / backdoor which gives the owner easy access to the victim's system.
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