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Debian: USN-6225-1 Moderate: ipsec-tools Resource Exhaustion Attack

debian lts
Calendar Grey July 30, 2017
Dist Debian Esm H88
Debian LTS addresses a critical vulnerability in ipsec-tools, mitigating resource allocation issues stemming from fragmented ISAKMP packets.
The racoon daemon in IPsec-Tools 0.8.2 and earlier contains a remotely exploitable computational-complexity attack when parsing and storing ISAKMP fragments

Summary

For Debian 7 "Wheezy", these problems have been fixed in version
1:0.8.0-14+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your ipsec-tools packages.

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



Package: ipsec-tools
Version: 1:0.8.0-14+deb7u1
CVE ID: CVE-2016-10396
Debian Bug: 867986

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