Debian Security Advisory
DSA-174-1 heartbeat -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 14 Oct 2002
- Affected Packages:
- heartbeat
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-1215.
- More information:
-
Nathan Wallwork discovered a buffer overflow in heartbeat, a subsystem for High-Availability Linux. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted UDP packet that overflows a buffer, leaving heartbeat to execute arbitrary code as root.
This problem has been fixed in version 0.4.9.0l-7.2 for the current stable distribution (woody) and version 0.4.9.2-1 for the unstable distribution (sid). The old stable distribution (potato) doesn't contain a heartbeat package.
We recommend that you upgrade your heartbeat package immediately if you run internet connected servers that are heartbeat-monitored.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/heartbeat_0.4.9.0l-7.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/heartbeat_0.4.9.0l-7.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/heartbeat_0.4.9.0l.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/heartbeat_0.4.9.0l-7.2.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/ldirectord_0.4.9.0l-7.2_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/heartbeat_0.4.9.0l-7.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith0_0.4.9.0l-7.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/stonith_0.4.9.0l-7.2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/heartbeat_0.4.9.0l-7.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith0_0.4.9.0l-7.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/stonith_0.4.9.0l-7.2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/heartbeat_0.4.9.0l-7.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith0_0.4.9.0l-7.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/stonith_0.4.9.0l-7.2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/heartbeat_0.4.9.0l-7.2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith0_0.4.9.0l-7.2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/stonith_0.4.9.0l-7.2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_ia64.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/heartbeat_0.4.9.0l-7.2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith0_0.4.9.0l-7.2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/stonith_0.4.9.0l-7.2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/heartbeat_0.4.9.0l-7.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith0_0.4.9.0l-7.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/stonith_0.4.9.0l-7.2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/heartbeat_0.4.9.0l-7.2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith0_0.4.9.0l-7.2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/stonith_0.4.9.0l-7.2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/heartbeat_0.4.9.0l-7.2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith0_0.4.9.0l-7.2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/stonith_0.4.9.0l-7.2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/heartbeat_0.4.9.0l-7.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith0_0.4.9.0l-7.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/stonith_0.4.9.0l-7.2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/heartbeat_0.4.9.0l-7.2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith0_0.4.9.0l-7.2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/stonith_0.4.9.0l-7.2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/heartbeat_0.4.9.0l-7.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith0_0.4.9.0l-7.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/stonith_0.4.9.0l-7.2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/heartbeat/libstonith-dev_0.4.9.0l-7.2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.