IPsec-Tools racoon denial of service
| ipsectools-racoon-dos (44395) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
IPsec-Tools is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak in the racoon daemon. By sending an invalid proposal, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 5 |
| Access Vector: | Network |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 4.1 |
| Exploitability: | Functional |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
For Apple Mac OS:
Apply Apple Security Update 2009-002, available from the Apple Web site. See References.
Upgrade to the latest version of IPsec-Tools (0.7.1 or later), available from the IPsec-Tools Web page. See References.
References:
- Apple Web site: About the security content of Security Update 2009-002 / Mac OS X v10.5.7.
- IPsec-Tools Web page: IPsec-Tools.
- ipsec-tools-announce Mailing List, 2008-07-24 08:45: Ipsec-tools 0.7.1 released.
- ASA-2008-403: ipsec-tools security update (RHSA-2008-0849)
- BID-30657: IPsec-Tools Multiple Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2008-3651: Memory leak in racoon/proposal.c in the racoon daemon in ipsec-tools before 0.7.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via invalid proposals.
- GLSA-200812-03: IPsec-Tools: racoon Denial of Service
- MDVSA-2008:181: ipsec-tools
- RHSA-2008-0849: Important: ipsec-tools security update
- SA31450: IPsec-Tools racoon Denial of Service
- SA35074: Apple Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SECTRACK ID: 1020667: IPsec-Tools Memory Leak in Processing Invalid Proposals Lets Remote Users Deny Service
- SUSE-SR:2008:025: SUSE Security Summary Report
- SUSE-SR:2009:004: SUSE Security Summary Report
- USN-641-1: Racoon vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2008-2345: IPsec-Tools Invalid Proposals Denial of Service Vulnerability
- VUPEN/ADV-2008-2844: Avaya Products IPsec-Tools Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2009-1297: Apple Mac OS X Code Execution and Security Bypass Vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2009-1621: Apple iPhone and iPod touch Multiple Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Platforms Affected:
- Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11
- Apple Mac OS X 10.5
- Apple Mac OS X 10.5.1
- Apple Mac OS X 10.5.2
- Apple Mac OS X 10.5.3
- Apple Mac OS X 10.5.4
- Apple Mac OS X 10.5.5
- Apple Mac OS X 10.5.6
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.11
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.1
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.2
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.3
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.4
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.5
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.6
- Canonical Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
- Canonical Ubuntu 7.04
- Canonical Ubuntu 7.10
- Canonical Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
- Gentoo Linux
- IPsec-Tools IPsec-Tools 0.7
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2007.1
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2007.1 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.0
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.1 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.1
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 4.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 4.0
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Multi Network Firewall 2.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 Desktop
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 ES
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 WS
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 AS
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 WS
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 ES
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 Desktop
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 AS
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 Client
Reported:
Jul 24, 2008
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