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by jtl999 2005 days ago
Documented cases don't seem to be common, but what comes to mind is the Debian "weak keys" scandal (2008), and the VLC "libeml" vulnerability (2019)[1]

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/ch86o6/vlc_security...

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OpenSSL upstream was almost abandoned during those days.

Software are always gonna have bugs, it's written by humans after all. The important thing is to acknowledge and work towards an ideal outcome.

Xweak keys" didn't have anything to do with backporting fixes to older versions. It was introduced into the version in sid at the time.