Package : ipsec-tools Vulnerability : null dereference Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-3732 BugTraq ID : 15523 Debian Bug : 340584
The Internet Key Exchange version 1 (IKEv1) implementation in racoon from ipsec-tools, IPsec tools for Linux, try to dereference a NULL pointer under certain conditions which allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain ipsec-tools.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.2-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your racoon package.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------