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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-3121: Heartbeat: Denial of service

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-3121: Heartbeat: Denial of service

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/16/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
05/28/2021

Description

The peel_netstring function in cl_netstring.c in the heartbeat subsystem in High-Availability Linux before 1.2.5, and 2.0 before 2.0.7, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via the length parameter in a heartbeat message.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-cluster-heartbeat

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