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freeswan: Denial of Service

Package(s):

freeswan

CVE #(s):

Created:

December 4, 2002

Updated:

December 4, 2002

Description:

Bindview discovered a problem in several IPSEC implementations that do not properly handle certain very short packets. IPSEC is a set of security extensions to IP which provide authentication and encryption. Debian's FreeS/WAN package contains this vulnerability, which can lead to kernel crashes.

Alerts:

Debian

DSA-201-1

2002-12-02

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