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Heartbeat Shared Memory Insecure Permissions Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA21162
Release Date: 2006-07-27
Popularity: 5,976 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Heartbeat 2.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported Heartbeat, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to insecure permissions on shared memory and can be exploited to crash the service.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.0.5. Prior versions may also be affected.

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