On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 06:26:48PM +0100, Rob Kendrick wrote:
| On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:09:10AM -0700, Scott G. Kelly wrote:
| > Does heartbleed allow one to read (discarded, freed) physical memory 
containing data from the OS and/or other processes in linux?
| 
| Yes.  It doesn't clear memory when it is freed, so you may end up
| allocating memory that has old content in it, perhaps even from swap.

Correct.  FWIW, the grsecurity patch adds the [moderately expensive] capability 
to do this at the kernel level.
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