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Gentoo: 200705-09 Normal: IPsec-Tools Denial of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey May 8, 2007
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A notice concerning an IPsec-Tools security flaw that permits external threats to destabilize network tunnels.
IPsec-Tools contains a vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to crash the IPsec tunnel.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200705-09 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: IPsec-Tools: Denial of Service Date: May 08, 2007 Bugs: #173219 ID: 200705-09

Synopsis ======= IPsec-Tools contains a vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to crash the IPsec tunnel.
Background ========= IPsec-Tools is a port of KAME's implementation of the IPsec utilities. It contains a collection of network monitoring tools, including racoon, ping, and ping6.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-firewall/ipsec-tools < 0.6.7 >= 0.6.7
========== The isakmp_info_recv() function in src/racoon/isakmp_inf.c does not always check that DELETE (ISAKM...

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