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USN-335-1: heartbeat vulnerability

16 August 2006

heartbeat vulnerability

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Details

Yan Rong Ge discovered that heartbeat did not sufficiently verify some
packet input data, which could lead to an out-of-boundary memory
access. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the daemon
(Denial of Service).

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 6.06
  • heartbeat - 1.2.4-2ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu 5.10
  • heartbeat - 1.2.3-12ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu 5.04
  • heartbeat - 1.2.3-3ubuntu1.3

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

References