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KAME Project "ipcomp6_input()" Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA28788
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Release Date:
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2008-02-06
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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 Workaround
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| Software: | KAME Project
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2008-0177 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in the KAME Project, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the "ipcomp6_input()" function in kame/sys/netinet6/ipcomp_input.c when processing IPv6 packets with an IPComp header. This can be exploited to crash a vulnerable system by sending a specially crafted IPv6 packet.
Solution:
Fixed in the CVS repository.
http://www.kame.net/dev/cvsweb2.cgi/k...6/ipcomp_input.c.diff?r1=1.36;r2=1.37
Provided and/or discovered by:
US-CERT credits Shoichi Sakane.
NetBSD credits the Coverity Prevent analysis tool.
Original Advisory:
US-CERT VU#110947:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/110947
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