Bug 236380

Summary:	CVE-2007-1841 DoS vulnerability against IPSec-tools < 0.6.6
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Mike Redan <mike.redan>
Component:	ipsec-tools	Assignee:	James Antill <james.antill>
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Priority:	medium
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Description Mike Redan 2007-04-13 15:00:53 UTC

Description of problem:
There appears to be a DoS vulnerability against ipsec-tools < 0.6.6, but I have
not seen a patch released from RedHat. Is the version that comes with RHEL4 not
vulnerable to this attack?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
< 0.6.6

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
there is a PoC available on the web using the PROTOS suite.
  
Actual results:
DoS

Expected results:
DoS

Additional info:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1841

patched by the vendor:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20070406123739.GA1546%40zen.inc

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2007-05-07 17:09:53 UTC

The Security Response Team has verified that this flaw does not affect the
version of ipsec-tools shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.  It does affect
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, which is being tracked via bug 235388.