5893 : KAME Racoon IKE Header DoS
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Disclosure

May 06, 2004

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

May 06, 2004

Solution

Unknown

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 Required
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Available
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

Generic Informational URL: http://www.computerworld.dk/sikkerhed/default.asp?Mode=2&AutoArticleID=18131
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
ISS X-Force ID: 15893
Secunia Advisory ID: 11411 14178
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/secunia/2004-q2/0278.html
CVE ID: 2004-0392 (see also: NVD)

Tools & Filters

Nessus	18917

Credit

John Lampe - jwlampenessus.org - Tenable Security

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