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Heartbeat Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA21511
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Release Date:
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2006-08-16
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Popularity:
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4,938 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From local network
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Heartbeat 1.x
Heartbeat 2.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-3121
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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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