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Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux - Third Edition
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Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux - Third Edition

by Daniel W. Dieterle, Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez, Juned Ahmed Ansari
February 2018
Beginner to intermediate
426 pages
10h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Exploiting Heartbleed

Heartbleed was discovered in April 2014. It consists of a buffer over-read situation in the OpenSSL TLS implementation; that is, more data can be read from memory than should be allowed. This situation allows an attacker to read information from the OpenSSL server's memory in cleartext. This means that there is no need to decrypt or even intercept any communication between client and server; you simply ask the server what's in its memory and it will answer with the unencrypted information.

In practice, Heartbleed can be exploited over any unpatched OpenSSL server (versions 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f and 1.0.2-beta through 1.0.2-beta1) that supports TLS, and by exploiting, it reads up to 64 KB from the server's memory in plaintext. ...

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