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IPsec-Tools ISAKMP IKE Message Processing Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA17668
Release Date: 2005-11-22
Last Update: 2006-01-19
Popularity: 10,470 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:IPsec-Tools 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-3732
CVE-2005-3666
CVE-2005-3667
CVE-2005-3668


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in IPsec-Tools, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereferencing error when processing certain ISAKMP packets in aggressive mode.

The vulnerability is related to:
SA17553

Successful exploitation requires a weak racoon configuration (e.g. no lifetime proposal or obey mode), and using 3DES/SHA1/DH2.

Solution:
Update to version 0.6.3.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfi...ackage_id=74949&release_id=372605

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Adrian Portelli.

Changelog:
2006-01-19: Added CVE references.

Original Advisory:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/fo...?thread_id=9017454&forum_id=32000
http://sourceforge.net/project/showno...?release_id=372605&group_id=74601

Other References:
SA17553:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17553/


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