Synopsis: Important: ipsec-tools security update
Issue date: 2009-05-18
CVE Names: CVE-2009-1574 CVE-2009-1632
A denial of service flaw was found in the ipsec-tools racoon daemon. An
unauthenticated, remote attacker could trigger a NULL pointer
dereference that could cause the racoon daemon to crash. (CVE-2009-1574)
Multiple memory leak flaws were found in the ipsec-tools racoon daemon.
If a remote attacker is able to make multiple connection attempts to the
racoon daemon, it was possible to cause the racoon daemon to consume all
available memory. (CVE-2009-1632)
Users must restart the racoon daemon for this update to take effect.
SL 5.x
SRPMS:
ipsec-tools-0.6.5-13.el5_3.1.src.rpm
i386:
ipsec-tools-0.6.5-13.el5_3.1.i386.rpm
x86_64:
ipsec-tools-0.6.5-13.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson