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Debian DSA-1151-1 : heartbeat - out-of-bounds read

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22693

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Yan Rong Ge discovered out-of-boundary memory access in heartbeat, the subsystem for High-Availability Linux. This could be used by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the heartbeat packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.3-9sarge6.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1151

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22693

File Name: debian_DSA-1151.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:heartbeat, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 8/15/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/16/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-3121

DSA: 1151