DSA-1299-1 ipsec-tools -- missing input sanitising

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2007-1841  

It was discovered that a specially-crafted packet sent to the racoon ipsec key exchange server could cause a tunnel to crash, resulting in a denial of service. The oldstable distribution (sarge) isn't affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1:0.6.6-3.1. The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your racoon package.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1299-1 ipsec-tools -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:
07 Jun 2007
Affected Packages:
ipsec-tools
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-1841.
More information:

It was discovered that a specially-crafted packet sent to the racoon ipsec key exchange server could cause a tunnel to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

The oldstable distribution (sarge) isn't affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1:0.6.6-3.1.

The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your racoon package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/ipsec-tools_0.6.6-3.1etch4.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/ipsec-tools_0.6.6-3.1etch4.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/ipsec-tools_0.6.6.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/ipsec-tools_0.6.6-3.1etch4_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/racoon_0.6.6-3.1etch4_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/ipsec-tools_0.6.6-3.1etch4_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/racoon_0.6.6-3.1etch4_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/ipsec-tools_0.6.6-3.1etch4_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/racoon_0.6.6-3.1etch4_arm.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/ipsec-tools_0.6.6-3.1etch4_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/racoon_0.6.6-3.1etch4_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/ipsec-tools_0.6.6-3.1etch4_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/racoon_0.6.6-3.1etch4_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/ipsec-tools_0.6.6-3.1etch4_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/racoon_0.6.6-3.1etch4_ia64.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/ipsec-tools_0.6.6-3.1etch4_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/racoon_0.6.6-3.1etch4_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/ipsec-tools_0.6.6-3.1etch4_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/racoon_0.6.6-3.1etch4_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/ipsec-tools_0.6.6-3.1etch4_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/racoon_0.6.6-3.1etch4_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/ipsec-tools_0.6.6-3.1etch4_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/racoon_0.6.6-3.1etch4_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/ipsec-tools_0.6.6-3.1etch4_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ipsec-tools/racoon_0.6.6-3.1etch4_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.