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Fedora 11: FEDORA-2009-4394 Critical Remote DoS Fix for ipsec-tools

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Release note for ipsec-tools in Fedora 11 featuring mitigations for external Denial of Service vulnerabilities alongside improvements to operational features.
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 Fedora remote DoS ipsec-tools minor update

Change Log

* Tue May 5 2009 Tomas Mraz - 0.7.2-1 - Update to a new upstream version

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 11
Version: 0.7.2
Release: 1.fc11
URL:
Summary: Tools for configuring and using IPSEC

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora remote DoS ipsec-tools minor update

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