Mailing the story:

Debian alert: New heartbeat packages fix buffer overflows

  • Mailing list (Posted by on CST)
  • Story Type: Security; Groups: Debian
Nathan Wallwork discovered a buffer overflow in heartbeat, a subsystem for High-Availability Linux. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted TCP packet that overflows a buffer, leaving heartbeat to execute arbitrary code as root.
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