Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting ipsec-tools package, versions [,0.8.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
16.88% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-IPSECTOOLS-2380467
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 May 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 May 2009

CVE-2009-1574  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ipsec-tools to version 0.8.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) racoon/isakmp_frag.c in ipsec-tools before 0.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted fragmented packets without a payload, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

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