[srfilipek]

> Heartbleed (and all the other serious memory exploits) required a great deal of skill and a lot of luck to exploit, and in return you either don't get a remote execution, or you get a very tiny chance of a remote execution.

Heartbleed wasn't about RCE at all. It was about memory disclosure -- memory that contained secret signing keys. The fallout was that keys needed to be revoked and rotated.

Reading out memory and extracting the secret keys was actually pretty simple. There were multiple POCs available.