IPsec-Tools' racoon is affected by a remote Denial of Service vulnerability.
Package | net-firewall/ipsec-tools on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 0.7.1 |
Unaffected versions | >= 0.7.1 |
IPsec-Tools is a port of KAME's implementation of the IPsec utilities. It contains a collection of network monitoring tools, including racoon, ping, and ping6.
Two Denial of Service vulnerabilities have been reported in racoon:
An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to cause a Denial of Service.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All IPsec-Tools users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-firewall/ipsec-tools-0.7.1"
Release date
December 02, 2008
Latest revision
December 02, 2008: 01
Severity
normal
Exploitable
remote
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