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Debian Security Advisory DSA 174-1 (heartbeat)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

10.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to heartbeat announced via advisory DSA 174-1.

Insight

Insight

Nathan Wallwork discovered a buffer overflow in heartbeat, a subsystem for High-Availability Linux. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted TCP packet that overflows a buffer, leaving heartbeat to execute arbitrary code as root. This problem has been fixed in version 0.4.9.0l-7.2 for the current stable distribution (woody) and version 0.4.9.2-1 for the unstable distribution (sid). The old stable distribution (potato) doesn't contain a heartbeat package. We recommend that you upgrade your heartbeat package immediately if

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20174-1

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