Executive Summary

Summary
Title heartbeat vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-326-1 First vendor Publication 2006-07-27
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2006-07-27
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 2.1 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 5.04 Ubuntu 5.10 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

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

Ubuntu 5.04:
heartbeat 1.2.3-3ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 5.10:
heartbeat 1.2.3-12ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
heartbeat 1.2.4-2ubuntu0.1

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

Details follow:

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).

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-326-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200608-23 (heartbeat)
File : nvt/glsa_200608_23.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1128-1 (heartbeat)
File : nvt/deb_1128_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
27555 Heartbeat Shared Memory Insecure Permission Local DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2007-11-10 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-326-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-10-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_heartbeat-2139.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-12-16 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2006-142.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-10-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1128.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-08-30 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200608-23.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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