Debian DSA-1804-1 : ipsec-tools - NULL pointer dereference, memory leaks

medium Nessus Plugin ID 38861

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in racoon, the Internet Key Exchange daemon of ipsec-tools. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2009-1574 Neil Kettle discovered a NULL pointer dereference on crafted fragmented packets that contain no payload. This results in the daemon crashing which can be used for denial of service attacks.

- CVE-2009-1632 Various memory leaks in the X.509 certificate authentication handling and the NAT-Traversal keepalive implementation can result in memory exhaustion and thus denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the ipsec-tools packages.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.6-3.1etch3.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.1-1.3+lenny2.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 38861

File Name: debian_DSA-1804.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/22/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ipsec-tools, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/20/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1574, CVE-2009-1632

BID: 34765

CWE: 399

DSA: 1804

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