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Gentoo: GLSA-200909-05 Normal: Openswan Denial of Service Exploits

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Calendar Grey September 9, 2009
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Openswan encounters vulnerabilities leading to Denial of Service concerns; prompt updates needed for the protection of Gentoo installations.
Multiple vulnerabilities in the pluto IKE daemon of Openswan might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200909-05 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Openswan: Denial of Service Date: September 09, 2009 Bugs: #264346, #275233 ID: 200909-05

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities in the pluto IKE daemon of Openswan might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service.
Background ========= Openswan is an implementation of IPsec for Linux.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/openswan < 2.4.15 >= 2.4.15
========== Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Openswan:
* Gerd v. Egidy reported a NULL pointer dereference in the Dead Peer Detection of the pluto IKE daemon as incl...

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