Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200508-05 (Heartbeat)

Summary
The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200508-05.
Solution
All Heartbeat users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=sys-cluster/heartbeat-1.2.3-r1' http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200508-05 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97175
Insight
Heartbeat is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user to overwrite arbitrary files.