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diff --git a/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-23.xml b/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-23.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fc223cd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-23.xml @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> +<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> +<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> +<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> + +<glsa id="200608-23"> + <title>Heartbeat: Denial of Service</title> + <synopsis> + Heartbeat is vulnerable to a Denial of Service which can be triggered by a + remote attacker without authentication. + </synopsis> + <product type="ebuild">heartbeat</product> + <announced>August 24, 2006</announced> + <revised>September 22, 2006: 02</revised> + <bug>141894</bug> + <access>remote</access> + <affected> + <package name="sys-cluster/heartbeat" auto="yes" arch="*"> + <unaffected range="ge">2.0.7</unaffected> + <unaffected range="rge">1.2.5</unaffected> + <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.7</vulnerable> + </package> + </affected> + <background> + <p> + Heartbeat is a component of the High-Availability Linux project. It is + used to perform death-of-node detection, communications and cluster + management. + </p> + </background> + <description> + <p> + Yan Rong Ge discovered that the peel_netstring() function in + cl_netstring.c does not validate the "length" parameter of user input, + which can lead to an out-of-bounds memory access when processing + certain Heartbeat messages (CVE-2006-3121). Furthermore an unspecified + local DoS issue was fixed (CVE-2006-3815). + </p> + </description> + <impact type="normal"> + <p> + By sending a malicious UDP Heartbeat message, even before + authentication, a remote attacker can crash the master control process + of the cluster. + </p> + </impact> + <workaround> + <p> + There is no known workaround at this time. + </p> + </workaround> + <resolution> + <p> + All Heartbeat users should upgrade to the latest version: + </p> + <code> + # emerge --sync + # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose sys-cluster/heartbeat</code> + </resolution> + <references> + <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3121">CVE-2006-3121</uri> + <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3815">CVE-2006-3815</uri> + </references> + <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:22:39 +0000"> + jaervosz + </metadata> + <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:22:38 +0000"> + falco + </metadata> + <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:19:23 +0000"> + falco + </metadata> +</glsa> |