1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-107-1

USN-107-1: racoon vulnerability

Publication date

6 April 2005

Overview

racoon vulnerability

Releases

Details

Sebastian Krahmer discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the
racoon daemon. By sending specially crafted ISAKMP packets, a remote
attacker could trigger a buffer overflow which caused racoon to crash.

This update does not introduce any source code changes affecting the
ipsec-tools package. It is necessary to update the version number of
the package in order to support an update to the “racoon” package.
Please note that racoon is not officially supported by Ubuntu (it is
in the “universe” component of the archive).

Sebastian Krahmer discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the
racoon daemon. By sending specially crafted ISAKMP packets, a remote
attacker could trigger a buffer overflow which caused racoon to crash.

This update does not introduce any source code changes affecting the
ipsec-tools package. It is necessary to update the version number of
the package in order to support an update to the “racoon” package.
Please note that racoon is not officially supported by Ubuntu (it is
in the “universe” component of the archive).

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
4.10 warty racoon – 

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