mystified Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 Package name ipsec-tools Date July 14th, 2004 Advisory ID MDKSA-2004:069 Affected versions 10.0 Synopsis Updated ipsec-tools packages fix multiple vulnerabilities Problem Description A vulnerability in racoon prior to version 20040408a would allow a remote attacker to cause a DoS (memory consumption) via an ISAKMP packet with a large length field. Another vulnerability in racoon was discovered where, when using RSA signatures, racoon would validate the X.509 certificate but would not validate the signature. This can be exploited by an attacker sending a valid and trusted X.509 certificate and any private key. Using this, they could perform a man-in-the-middle attack and initiate an unauthorized connection. This has been fixed in ipsec-tools 0.3.3. The updated packages contain patches backported from 0.3.3 to correct the problem. References http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0403 Upgrade To upgrade automatically, use MandrakeUpdate. Verification Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the command: rpm --checksig package.rpm You can get the GPG public key of the Mandrakelinux Security Team to verify the GPG signature of each RPM. If you use MandrakeUpdate, the verification of md5 checksum and GPG signature is performed automatically for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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