5491 : KAME Racoon ISAKMP Header Length DoS
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7 months ago

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Disclosure

Apr 02, 2004

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Apr 02, 2004

Solution

Unknown

Description

Racoon contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when sending a specially crafted ISAKMP packet containing an overly large length field, which causes the ISAKMP message to consume all available system resources, resulting in a loss of availability.

Classification

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

Solution

Upgrade to version 20040408a 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

20011215a

References

Bugtraq ID: 10172
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=232288
CIAC Advisory: o-138
OVAL ID: 984
Other Advisory URL: ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.10/SCOSA-2005.10.txt http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/ccd698df-8e20-11d8-90d1-0020ed76ef5a.html
ISS X-Force ID: 15893
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20040506-01-U.asc http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2004/May/msg00000.html
http://orange.kame.net/dev/query-pr.cgi?pr=610
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-165.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200406-17.xml
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:069
Secunia Advisory ID: 11410 14178
CVE ID: 2004-0403 (see also: NVD)
Vendor Specific Solution URL: http://www.kame.net/dev/cvsweb2.cgi/kame/kame/kame/racoon/isakmp.c.diff?r1=1.180& ......
Vendor URL: http://www.kame.net/racoon/

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Credit

John Lampe - jwlampenessus.org - Tenable Security

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