Certified Ethical Hacker 312-50v10 – Question214

The Heartbleed bug was discovered in 2014 and is widely referred to under MITREs Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) as CVE-2014-0160. This bug affects the OpenSSL implementation of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols defined in RFC6520.

What type of key does this bug leave exposed to the Internet making exploitation of any compromised system very easy?


A.
Public
B. Private
C. Shared
D. Root

Correct Answer: B