SciLinux SL 5.x Advisory: Important ipsec-tools Security Update

Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 15:54:37 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: ipsec-tools on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: ipsec-tools security update
Issue date:	2009-05-18
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-1574 CVE-2009-1632

A denial of service flaw was found in the ipsec-tools racoon daemon. An
unauthenticated, remote attacker could trigger a NULL pointer
dereference that could cause the racoon daemon to crash. (CVE-2009-1574)

Multiple memory leak flaws were found in the ipsec-tools racoon daemon.
If a remote attacker is able to make multiple connection attempts to the
racoon daemon, it was possible to cause the racoon daemon to consume all
available memory. (CVE-2009-1632)

Users must restart the racoon daemon for this update to take effect.

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
ipsec-tools-0.6.5-13.el5_3.1.src.rpm
 i386:
ipsec-tools-0.6.5-13.el5_3.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
ipsec-tools-0.6.5-13.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson