GLSA 200503-33: IPsec-Tools: racoon Denial of Service

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Severity:	normal
Title:	IPsec-Tools: racoon Denial of Service
Date:	03/25/2005
Bugs:	#84479
ID:	200503-33

Synopsis

IPsec-Tools' racoon is affected by a remote Denial of Service vulnerability.

Background

IPsec-Tools is a port of KAME's implementation of the IPsec utilities. It contains a collection of network monitoring tools, including racoon, ping, and ping6.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-firewall/ipsec-tools	< 0.5-r1	>= 0.4-r1	All supported architectures

Description

Sebastian Krahmer has reported a potential remote Denial of Service vulnerability in the ISAKMP header parsing code of racoon.

Impact

An attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service of racoon using a specially crafted ISAKMP packet.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All IPsec-Tools users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-firewall/ipsec-tools-0.4-r1"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-33.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.