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Severity: Normal |
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Title: IPsec-Tools: racoon Denial of Service |
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Date: March 25, 2005 |
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Bugs: #84479 |
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ID: 200503-33 |
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Synopsis |
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IPsec-Tools' racoon is affected by a remote Denial of Service |
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vulnerability. |
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Background |
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IPsec-Tools is a port of KAME's implementation of the IPsec utilities. |
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It contains a collection of network monitoring tools, including racoon, |
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ping, and ping6. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 net-firewall/ipsec-tools < 0.5-r1 *>= 0.4-r1 |
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>= 0.5-r1 |
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Description |
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Sebastian Krahmer has reported a potential remote Denial of Service |
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vulnerability in the ISAKMP header parsing code of racoon. |
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Impact |
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An attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service of racoon using a |
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specially crafted ISAKMP packet. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround at this time. |
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Resolution |
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All IPsec-Tools users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-firewall/ipsec-tools-0.4-r1" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] CAN-2005-0398 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0398 |
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[ 2 ] ipsec-tools-devel posting |
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http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6787713&forum_id=32000 |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-33.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 |