Apple
Fixes Heartbleed Bug in
AirPort Extreme and
Time Capsule
Back in early April
Apple had told us its key web-based services aren't affected by the
Heartbleed security vulnerability, but it forgot to mention that some of its hardware — namely, the 2013
AirPort Extreme and
Time Capsule — are vulnerable
**w, the company has released a
firmware update that
Fixes the issue for both products.
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Apple
describes the bug as follows:
"An out-of-bounds read issue existed in the OpenSSL library when handling TLS heartbeat extension packets. An attacker in a privileged network position could obtain information from process memory. This issue was addressed through additional bounds checking. Only
AirPort Extreme and
AirPort Time Capsule base stations with 802.11ac are affected, and only if they have Back to My Mac or Send Diag**stics enabled. Other
AirPort base stations are **t impacted by this issue."
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