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KAME Racoon ISAKMP Header Length Field Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA11410
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Release Date:
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2004-04-19
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Popularity:
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10,079 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | KAME Racoon
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2004-0403
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Description:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Racoon, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when allocating memory for ISAKMP messages. It is possible to consume a large amount of memory via an ISAKMP packet with an extremely large value in the header's length field.
Successful exploitation may crash the service.
Solution:
An update is available via CVS:
http://www.kame.net/dev/cvsweb2.cgi/k...n/isakmp.c.diff?r1=1.180&r2=1.181
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.
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