Javantea discovered a NULL pointer dereference flaw in racoon, the Internet Key Exchange daemon of ipsec-tools. A remote attacker can use this flaw to cause the IKE daemon to crash via specially crafted UDP packets, resulting in a denial of service.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3272-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
http://www.debian.org/security/                      Salvatore Bonaccorso
May 23, 2015                           http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : ipsec-tools
CVE ID         : CVE-2015-4047
Debian Bug     : 785778

Javantea discovered a NULL pointer dereference flaw in racoon, the
Internet Key Exchange daemon of ipsec-tools. A remote attacker can use
this flaw to cause the IKE daemon to crash via specially crafted UDP
packets, resulting in a denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 1:0.8.0-14+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:0.8.2+20140711-2+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your ipsec-tools packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

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