CVE-2006-3815

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-07-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

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 products

Linux-Ha Heartbeat: through 2.0.5

References

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-cvs%40lists.linux-ha.org/msg00753.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:142

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