Security researcher Steve Gibson said of Heartbleed that: It's not just a server-side vulnerability, it's also a client-side vulnerability because the server, or whomever you connect to, is as able to ask you for a heartbeat back as you are to ask them.
安全研究员史蒂夫·吉布森（Steve Gibson）在谈及该漏洞时称， 它不只是服务器端的漏洞，它也是客户端的漏洞，因为服务器、或你连接的任何人，都能向你请求心跳包，正如你能向他们请求一样。