CVE-2006-3815 Information

Description

heartbeat.c in heartbeat before 2.0.6 sets insecure permissions in a shmget call for shared memory which allows local users to cause an unspecified denial of service via unknown vectors possibly during a short time window on startup.

Reference

http://cvs.linux-ha.org/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/linux-ha/heartbeat/heartbeat.c?r1=1.513&r2=1.514 http://secunia.com/advisories/21162 http://secunia.com/advisories/21231 http://secunia.com/advisories/21240 http://secunia.com/advisories/21521 http://secunia.com/advisories/21629 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-23.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1016602 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1128 http://www.linux-ha.org/_cache/SecurityIssues__sec03.txt http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ha-cvs40lists.linux-ha.org/msg00753.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:142 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19186 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-326-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2994