CVE-2006-3815

EPSS 0.22%

heartbeat - permission error

Published: 7/25/2006Modified: 3/9/2026

Also known as:DSA-1128DEBIAN-CVE-2006-3815

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.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/heartbeatfrom 0, < 1.2.4-13
Debian/heartbeatfrom 0, < 1.2.3-9sarge5

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-3815