Summary
The remote host is missing an update to heartbeat
announced via advisory DSA 174-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20174-1
Insight
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.
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
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2002-1215 -
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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