vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-3482-1 (CVE-2016-10396): ipsec-tools vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Jul 5, 2017 | Nov 16, 2017 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 5, 2017
Added
Nov 16, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026
Description
The racoon daemon in IPsec-Tools 0.8.2 contains a remotely exploitable computational-complexity attack when parsing and storing ISAKMP fragments. The implementation permits a remote attacker to exhaust computational resources on the remote endpoint by repeatedly sending ISAKMP fragment packets in a particular order such that the worst-case computational complexity is realized in the algorithm utilized to determine if reassembly of the fragments can take place.
Solutions
ubuntu-upgrade-ipsec-toolsubuntu-upgrade-racoon
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