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heartbeat — security advisory
Multiple format string vulnerabilities in heartbeat 0.4.9 and earlier (claimed as buffer overflows in some sources) allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain packets to UDP port 694 (incorrectly claimed as TCP in some sources).
- Products
- heartbeat
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.4.9.2-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2002-1215
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:14 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Multiple format string vulnerabilities in heartbeat 0.4.9 and earlier (claimed as buffer overflows in some sources) allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain packets to UDP port 694 (incorrectly claimed as TCP in some sources).
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2002-1215
heartbeat
Fixed versions: 0.4.9.2-1
heartbeat
Fixed versions: 0.4.9.2-1
heartbeat
Fixed versions: 0.4.9.2-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-22T23:47:26.992852812Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 410566,
"published_at": "2002-10-28T05:00:00+00:00"
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