IPsec-Tools: racoon Denial of Service

IPsec-Tools: racoon Denial of Service IPsec-Tools' racoon is affected by a remote Denial of Service vulnerability. ipsec-tools December 02, 2008 December 02, 2008: 01 232831 remote 0.7.1 0.7.1

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.

Two Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been reported in racoon:

The vendor reported a memory leak in racoon/proposal.c that can be triggered via invalid proposals (CVE-2008-3651).
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzk reported that src/racoon/handler.c does not remove an "orphaned ph1" (phase 1) handle when it has been initiated remotely (CVE-2008-3652).

An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to cause a Denial of Service.

There is no known workaround at this time.

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


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-firewall/ipsec-tools-0.7.1"

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