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racoon: denial of service vulnerability

Package(s):ipsec-tools racoon iputils CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0403
Created:April 26, 2004 Updated:July 29, 2004
Description: racoon does not check the length of ISAKMP headers. Attackers may be able to craft an ISAKMP header of sufficient length to consume all available system resources, causing a Denial of Service. This advisory contains additional details.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2004:308-01 2004-07-29
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:069 2004-07-14
Fedora FEDORA-2004-197 2004-06-28
Whitebox WBSA-2004:165-01 2004-06-10
Fedora FEDORA-2004-132 2004-05-19
Red Hat RHSA-2004:165-01 2004-05-11
Gentoo 200404-17 2004-04-24
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