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Heartbleed triggered a major audit and a fork (LibreSSL) of the OpenSSL codebase, wherein much of the code was found to be of less than stellar quality: "Unfor
by nineteen999 8y ago
Heartbleed triggered a major audit and a fork (LibreSSL) of the OpenSSL codebase, wherein much of the code was found to be of less than stellar quality:
"Unfortunately, the OpenSSL basket was being watched somewhat less than very carefully. Yeah, it has bugs, but surely somebody else will fix them. And worst case scenario, since everybody uses the same library, everybody will be affected by the bugs. Nobody wants to be alone".
https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2014-libressl.html https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2014-libressl.html
So I'm pretty sure the one example you have picked here reinforces my point.