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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1151-1 (heartbeat)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to heartbeat announced via advisory DSA 1151-1. Yan Rong Ge discovered out-of-boundary memory access in heartbeat, the subsystem for High-Availability Linux. This could be used by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.3-9sarge6. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.4-14 and heartbeat-2 2.0.6-2. We recommend that you upgrade your heartbeat packages. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201151-1

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