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Bug 609084

Summary:	pfkey socket buffer overflow
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component:	ipsec-tools	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Ondrej Moriš <omoris>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	5.5	CC:	bmason, fnadge, jrieden, jwest, omoris, pm-eus, sgrubb, tmraz
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	OtherQA, ZStream
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	ipsec-tools-0.6.5-14.el5_5.5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	When clients connected and disconnected under load the racoon daemon stopped responding for a few minutes due to a race condition in the code handling dumps of the Security Association Database (SAD) from the kernel through a pfkey socket. The updated package uses a separate pfkey socket for the SA database dumps effectively removing the possibility for the race condition.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2010-08-24 06:59:22 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	607361
Bug Blocks:

Description RHEL Program Management 2010-06-29 11:57:05 UTC

This bug has been copied from bug #607361 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.5 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 4 Florian Nadge 2010-07-13 08:59:23 UTC

Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.

New Contents:
When clients connected and disconnected under load the racoon daemon stopped responding for a few minutes due to a race condition in the code handling dumps of the Security Association Database (SAD) from the kernel through a pfkey socket. The updated package uses a separate pfkey socket for the SA database dumps effectively removing the possibility for the race condition.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2010-08-24 06:59:22 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0645.html