Ticketbleed

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Ticketbleed is a software vulnerability in the TLS stack of certain F5 products that allows a remote attacker to extract up to 31 bytes of uninitialized memory at a time, which can contain any kind of random sensitive information, like in Heartbleed.[1]

Ticketbleed is registered in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database as CVE-2016-9244[2]

Cloudflare Cryptography Engineer Filippo Valsorda was credited for responsible disclosure.

References

  1. Valsorda, Filippo. "Finding Ticketbleed". https://blog.filippo.io/finding-ticketbleed/. 
  2. mitre.org. "CVE-2016-9244". mitre.org. https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9244. Retrieved 9 February 2017.