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TITLE:
Openswan Dead Peer Detection Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34483

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34483/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Openswan, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL-pointer dereference error
in the processing of Dead Peer Detection packets. This can be
exploited to crash and restart the "pluto" IKE daemon via a specially
crafted R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection packet.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.4.14 and 2.6.21.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.4.14, 2.6.21, or apply patches.
http://www.openswan.org/CVE-2009-0790/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Gerd v. Egidy of Intra2net AG.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.openswan.org/CVE-2009-0790/CVE-2009-0790.txt

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