Gentoo: GLSA-200608-23 Normal: Heartbeat Denial Of Service

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200608-23 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Heartbeat: Denial of Service Date: August 24, 2006 Bugs: #141894 ID: 200608-23

Synopsis ======= Heartbeat is vulnerable to a Denial of Service which can be triggered by a remote attacker without authentication.
Background ========= Heartbeat is a component of the High-Availability Linux project. It is used to perform death-of-node detection, communications and cluster management.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 sys-cluster/heartbeat < 2.0.7 >= 2.0.7
========== Yan Rong Ge discovered that the peel_netstring() function in cl_netstring.c does not v...