23 Apr
2014
23 Apr
'14
10:06 a.m.
From what I understand about the bug (I have not seen the code) it sounds
like data length information
arrived both directly and indirectly in the client message and that a
conflict between them was not
scrutinized.
No. The bug was that the keep alive protocol in SSL mandates the server to echo arbitrary data back to the client. The bounds checks were wrong too, but at that stage it really doesn't matter. The design is just plain wrong.