Yan Rong Ge discovered that heartbeat did not sufficiently verify some packet input data, which could lead to an out-of-boundary memory access. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the daemon (Denial of Service).
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
16 August 2006
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Yan Rong Ge discovered that heartbeat did not sufficiently verify some packet input data, which could lead to an out-of-boundary memory access. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the daemon (Denial of Service).
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
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