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Scientific Linux SL5.x: CVE-2007-1841 Moderate ipsec-tools DoS Fix

Calendar May 21, 2007 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory moderate denial of service ipsec-tools scientific linux
Moderate: ipsec-tools security update 
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 16:00:59 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for ipsec-tools on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: ipsec-tools security update
Issue date:	2007-05-17
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-1841

A denial of service flaw was found in the ipsec-tools racoon daemon. It
was possible for a remote attacker, with knowledge of an existing ipsec
tunnel, to terminate the ipsec connection between two machines.
(CVE-2007-1841)

 SRPMS:
	ipsec-tools-0.6.5-8.el5.src.rpm
 i386:
	ipsec-tools-0.6.5-8.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
	ipsec-tools-0.6.5-8.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson