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Gentoo: GLSA-200812-03 Normal: IPsec-Tools Denial of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey December 2, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Security notice concerning IPsec-Tools racoon; users encouraged to update due to moderate risk flaws.
IPsec-Tools' racoon is affected by a remote Denial of Service vulnerability.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200812-03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: IPsec-Tools: racoon Denial of Service Date: December 02, 2008 Bugs: #232831 ID: 200812-03

Synopsis ======= IPsec-Tools' racoon is affected by a remote Denial of Service vulnerability.
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 < 0.7.1 >= 0.7.1
========== Two Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been reported in racoon:
* The vendor reported a memory leak ...

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