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Heartbeat Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA21511
Release Date: 2006-08-16
Popularity: 4,963 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Heartbeat 1.x
Heartbeat 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-3121


Description:
Yan Rong Ge has reported a vulnerability in heartbeat, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an out of bounds memory access when processing certain heartbeat messages. This can be exploited to crash the master control process via specially crafted messages.

Solution:
Update to version 1.2.5 or 2.0.7.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Yan Rong Ge

Original Advisory:
http://www.linux-ha.org/_cache/SecurityIssues__sec03.txt


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