Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 500886
CVE-2009-1632 ipsec-tools: multiple memory leaks fixed in 0.7.2
Last modified: 2016-03-04 06:45:12 EST
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-1632 to the following vulnerability: Multiple memory leaks in Ipsec-tools before 0.7.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving (1) signature verification during user authentication with X.509 certificates, related to the eay_check_x509sign function in src/racoon/crypto_openssl.c; and (2) the NAT-Traversal (aka NAT-T) keepalive implementation, related to src/racoon/nattraversal.c. Announcement of new release: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=74601&release_id=677611 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20090422151825.GB46988%40zeninc.net&forum_name=ipsec-tools-announce RSA authentication patch and upstream bug: https://trac.ipsec-tools.net/ticket/303 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/crypto/dist/ipsec-tools/src/racoon/crypto_openssl.c.diff?r1=1.11.6.4&r2=1.11.6.5&f=h NAT traversal patch: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/crypto/dist/ipsec-tools/src/racoon/nattraversal.c.diff?r1=1.6&r2=1.6.6.1&f=h References: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/1716
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2009:1036 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1036.html
I'm wontfixing this for RHEL4. RHEL5 was updated already.