5491 : KAME Racoon ISAKMP Header Length DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2004-04-02	2004-04-02

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
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Vendor 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
Secunia Advisory ID: 11410 14178
ISS X-Force ID: 15893
CVE ID: 2004-0403 (see also: NVD)
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
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
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=232288
Vendor Specific Solution URL: http://www.kame.net/dev/cvsweb2.cgi/kame/kame/kame/racoon/isakmp.c.diff?r1=1.180&r2=1.181
Vendor URL: http://www.kame.net/racoon/
CIAC Advisory: o-138

Tools & Filters

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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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