Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in IPsec Tools, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
IPsec Tools "isakmp_inf.c" Denial of Service
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24815
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24815/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
DoS
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
IPsec-Tools 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/3352/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in IPsec Tools, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within
src/racoon/isakmp_inf.c. This can be exploited to e.g. interrupt
existing IPSec tunnels by sending a specially crafted packet.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.6.7.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.6.7.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Aaron Sigel, Apple.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20070406123739.GA1546%40zen.inc
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