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>> Openswan Packets Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : Openswan Packets Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2407
CVE ID : CVE-2005-3671
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-11-14


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A vulnerability has been identified in Openswan, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an error when handling specially crafted packets using "3DES" with an invalid key length, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending malformed packets to a vulnerable application. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2405

Affected Products

Openswan versions 2.x prior to 2.4.2

Solution

Upgrade to Openswan version 2.4.2 :
http://www.openswan.org/download/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2407
http://www.openswan.org/niscc2/

ChangeLog

2005-11-14 : Initial release

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