Patch All The Things! New "Cupid" Technique Exploits Heartbleed Bug (PCMagazine)

Cupid is an exploit for the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL that can target both servers and endpoints running Linux and Android, reports PCMagazine. "Luis Grangeia, a researcher at SysValue, created a proof-of-concept code library that he calls "Cupid." Cupid consists of two patches to existing Linux code libraries. One allows an "evil server" to exploit Heartbleed on vulnerable Linux and Android clients, while the other allows an "evil client" to attack Linux servers. Grangeia has made the source code freely available, in hopes that other researchers will join in to learn more about just what kind of attacks are possible."

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