Which of the Following Was Considered a Contributor to Vulnerabilities

question 58

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was considered a contributor to vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL security product, known as the Heartbleed bug:

• A) Overseas hackers modified the open source code and uploaded a compromise version to the Internet, which became widely used.
• B) Few developers were working on the project, so the ideal that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" wasn't met with OpenSSL.
• C) Developers failed to see a major incompatibility with versions of the Windows operating system and Chrome browser.
• D) There was no commercial entity overseeing the project.
• E) A Linux update was not coordinated with OpenSSL, leaving a gaping hole when the two products were used together to transmit content over the Internet.

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