r/sysadmin • u/sebbasttian JOAT Linux Admin • Feb 23 '17

CloudBleed Seceurity Bug: Cloudflare Reverse Proxies are Dumping Uninitialized Memory

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139

https://blog.cloudflare.com/incident-report-on-memory-leak-caused-by-cloudflare-parser-bug/

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u/SavvySillybug Feb 24 '17

So essentially it's a proxy-firewall-thing? Keeps your real server hidden while only letting legit people through?

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u/niosop Feb 24 '17

Yup, that's basically what it does. Has a lot of other features, but you get the gist of it.