Vulnerability in High Availability Linux Project Heartbeat
CVE-2006-3121
The peel_netstring function in cl_netstring.c in the heartbeat subsystem in High-Availability Linux before 1.2.5, and 2.0 before 2.0.7, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via the length parameter in a heartbeat message.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.136 (96.4th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.133 · newest: 0.136 · change: +0.002
Affected products
- High Availability Linux Project Heartbeat — versions 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 2.0.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-23.xml (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/21629 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/21511 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/21505 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/19516 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- www.linux-ha.org/_cache/SecurityIssues__sec03.txt
- secunia.com/advisories/21518 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28396 (vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1151 (vendor-advisory, Patch)