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Bug 507322

Summary: dev-libs/openssl - drop tls-heartbeat from IUSE defaults
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto <jmbsvicetto>
Component: [OLD] LibraryAssignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2014-04-10 12:36:10 UTC
Given the recent CVE-2014-0160, the impact it had and apparently some doubts about how much valid use tls-heartbeat really has, it seems it would be advisable to leave to users enabling tls-heartbeat. In this case, I argue the "better safe then sorry" approach, makes sense.
Comment 1 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2014-04-10 12:40:18 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 507130 ***