USN-326-1: heartbeat vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 6.06
• Ubuntu 5.10
• Ubuntu 5.04

Details

Yan Rong Ge discovered that heartbeat did not set proper permissions
for an allocated shared memory segment. A local attacker could exploit
this to render the heartbeat service unavailable (Denial of
Service).

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.06

• heartbeat - 1.2.4-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 5.10

• heartbeat - 1.2.3-12ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 5.04

• heartbeat - 1.2.3-3ubuntu1.2

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2006-3815