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

medium Nessus Plugin ID 17642

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200503-33 (IPsec-Tools: racoon Denial of Service)

 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.

Solution

All IPsec-Tools users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-firewall/ipsec-tools-0.4-r1'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200503-33

http://www.nessus.org/u?c02c5b89

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 17642

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200503-33.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Published: 3/29/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:ipsec-tools, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/25/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0398

GLSA: 200503-33