Heartbleed Security Bulletin

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Introduction

A security vulnerability has been discovered in the OpenSSL cryptography software library.  The vulnerability has been labeled CVE-2014-0160, by the National Vulnerabilities Database and has been nicknamed “Heartbleed”.  OpenSSL is widely used in applications, operating systems, and web server software (e.g. used in Apache and nginx web servers which account for ~66% of the internet).