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Fedora 10: 2009-4298 Moderate: ipsec-tools Remote DoS Fix

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 10 ipsec-tools patch addresses external DDoS vulnerability and introduces slight improvements to fortify system defenses.
Minor version update from upstream fixing remote DoS.

Summary

This is the IPsec-Tools package. You need this package in order to

really use the IPsec functionality in the linux-2.5+ kernels. This

package builds:

- setkey, a program to directly manipulate policies and SAs

- racoon, an IKEv1 keying daemon

Update Information:

Minor version update from upstream fixing remote DoS.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora ipsec-tools remote denial of service

Change Log

* Tue May 5 2009 Tomas Mraz - 0.7.2-1 - Update to a new upstream version * Wed Feb 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.7.1-8 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild * Thu Jan 15 2009 Tomas Mraz - 0.7.1-7 - rebuild with new openssl * Mon Nov 10 2008 Tomas Mraz - 0.7.1-6 - fix patch porting error in the dpd-fixes patch (#470575)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #497990 - ipsec-tools: racoon NULL dereference in fragmentation code https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497990

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ipsec-tools' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: ipsec-tools
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 0.7.2
Release: 1.fc10
URL:
Summary: Tools for configuring and using IPSEC

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora ipsec-tools remote denial of service

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