This is the description of the issue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed
http://heartbleed.com/

I know this is old news to everyone here. My question is: has anyone in here
patched their distribution themselves?

I just realized that one of my systems has a vulnerable OpenSSL version. (No, I
will not just upgrade the distribution at this point.)

i also would be interested to hear from anyone who tried the attack on their
own system for educational purposes. Apparently it does not leave anything
damaged.