<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200905-03"> <title>IPSec Tools: Denial of service</title> <synopsis> Multiple errors in the IPSec Tools racoon daemon might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">ipsec-tools</product> <announced>2009-05-24</announced> <revised count="01">2009-05-24</revised> <bug>267135</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-firewall/ipsec-tools" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">0.7.2</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">0.7.2</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> The IPSec Tools are a port of KAME's IPsec utilities to the Linux-2.6 IPsec implementation. They include racoon, an Internet Key Exchange daemon for automatically keying IPsec connections. </p> </background> <description> <p> The following vulnerabilities have been found in the racoon daemon as shipped with IPSec Tools: </p> <ul> <li>Neil Kettle reported that racoon/isakmp_frag.c is prone to a null-pointer dereference (CVE-2009-1574).</li> <li>Multiple memory leaks exist in (1) the eay_check_x509sign() function in racoon/crypto_openssl.c and (2) racoon/nattraversal.c (CVE-2009-1632).</li> </ul> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could send specially crafted fragmented ISAKMP packets without a payload or exploit vectors related to X.509 certificate authentication and NAT traversal, possibly resulting in a crash of the racoon daemon. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All IPSec Tools users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-firewall/ipsec-tools-0.7.2"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1574">CVE-2009-1574</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1632">CVE-2009-1632</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-05-06T21:47:03Z"> craig </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-05-07T10:56:09Z"> a3li </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-05-23T07:52:41Z"> rbu </metadata> </glsa>