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:
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