5893 : KAME Racoon IKE Header DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2004-05-06	2004-05-06

Description

Racoon contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when an IKE message is received with a malformed Generic Payload Header containing invalid SANP and "Reserved" fields. The attack causes an infinite loop and drops connections, resulting in loss of availability for the service.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 20040407a or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

KAME Project

Racoon

20040407b

References

Secunia Advisory ID: 11411 14178
ISS X-Force ID: 15893
CVE ID: 2004-0392 (see also: NVD)
Other Advisory URL: ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.10/SCOSA-2005.10.txt http://orange.kame.net/dev/query-pr.cgi?pr=555
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/40fcf20f-8891-11d8-90d1-0020ed76ef5a.html
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/secunia/2004-q2/0278.html
Generic Informational URL: http://www.computerworld.dk/sikkerhed/default.asp?Mode=2&AutoArticleID=18131

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Credit

John Lampe - jwlampenessus.org - Tenable Security

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2003-12-31 | Disagree?

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