7113 : KAME Racoon X.509 Invalid Certificate Validation
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
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Timeline

Discovery Date	Disclosure Date
2004-06-14	2004-06-14

Keywords

eay_check_x509cert

Description

KAME Racoon contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to use an invalid X509 certificate. The issue is triggered when the "eay_check_x509cert" function is invoked. It is possible that the flaw may allow invalid certificates to be accepted, allowing an attacker to access private resources.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Authentication Management, Cryptographic
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 20040615 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	20030711
		20040405
		20040407b
		20040503
		20040614

References

Security Tracker: 1010495
Bugtraq ID: 10546
Secunia Advisory ID: 11863 11877
ISS X-Force ID: 16414
CVE ID: 2004-0607 (see also: NVD)
Related OSVDB ID: 7113
Keyword: eay_check_x509cert
Other Advisory URL: ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.10/SCOSA-2005.10.txt
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-06/0222.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-06/0391.html
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=108726102304507&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=108731967126033&w=2
Vendor Specific Solution URL: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200406-17.xml
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=245982
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=245982
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2004:308

Tools & Filters

Snort	16080
	2274

Credit

Thomas Walpuski - thomas-bugtraqunproved.org -

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 10.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2003-12-31 | Disagree?

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