[Openswan Users] [ GLSA 200812-03 ] IPsec-Tools: racoon Denial of Service (fwd)

[Paul Wouters]

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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 18:30:56 +0100
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Subject: [ GLSA 200812-03 ] IPsec-Tools: racoon Denial of Service

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200812-03
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   Severity: Normal
      Title: IPsec-Tools: racoon Denial of Service
       Date: December 02, 2008
       Bugs: #232831
         ID: 200812-03

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

Background
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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
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      Package                   /  Vulnerable  /             Unaffected
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   1  net-firewall/ipsec-tools       < 0.7.1                   >= 0.7.1

Description
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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).

Impact
======

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

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

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

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

References
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   [ 1 ] CVE-2008-3651
         http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3651
   [ 2 ] CVE-2008-3652
         http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3652

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

   http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-03.xml

Concerns?
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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 at gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2008 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5