Gentoo: GLSA-202310-05 Normal: Openswan, IPsec-Tools DDoS Issue

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200512-04 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Openswan, IPsec-Tools: Vulnerabilities in ISAKMP Protocol implementation Date: December 12, 2005 Bugs: #112568, #113201 ID: 200512-04

Synopsis ======= Openswan and IPsec-Tools suffer from an implementation flaw which may allow a Denial of Service attack.
Background ========= Openswan is an implementation of IPsec for Linux. IPsec-Tools is a port of KAME's implementation of the IPsec utilities, including racoon, an Internet Key Exchange daemon. Internet Key Exchange version 1 (IKEv1), a derivate of ISAKMP, is an important part of IPsec. IPsec is widely used to secure exchange of packets at the IP layer and mostly used to implement Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).
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