USN-165-1: heartbeat vulnerability

Publication date

11 August 2005

Overview

heartbeat vulnerability

Releases


Details

Eric Romang discovered that heartbeat created temporary files in an
insecure manner. This could allow a symlink attack to create or
overwrite arbitrary files with root privileges as soon as heartbeat is
started.

Eric Romang discovered that heartbeat created temporary files in an
insecure manner. This could allow a symlink attack to create or
overwrite arbitrary files with root privileges as soon as heartbeat is
started.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
5.04 hoary heartbeat – 
4.10 warty heartbeat – 

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