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Fedora Core 6 : ipsec-tools-0.6.5-8.fc6 (2007-665)

high Nessus Plugin ID 25939

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Mon Apr 23 2007 Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> - 0.6.5-8

 - Upstream fix for Racoon DOS, informational delete must be encrypted

 - Resolves: rhbz#235388 - CVE-2007-1841 ipsec-tools racoon DoS

 - Fri Apr 20 2007 Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> - 0.6.5-7

 - Resolves: #218386 labeled ipsec does not work over loopback

 - Mon Apr 16 2007 Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> - 0.6.5-6.6

 - Related: #232508 add auditing to racoon

 - Sat Apr 14 2007 Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> - 0.6.5-6.5

 - Resolves: #235680 racoon socket descriptor exhaustion

 - Thu Apr 12 2007 Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> - 0.6.5-6.4

 - Resolves: #236121 increase buffer for context

 - Tue Apr 10 2007 Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> - 0.6.5-6.3

 - Resolves: #234491 kernel sends ACQUIRES that racoon is not catching

 - Resolves: #218386 labeled ipsec does not work over loopback

 - Tue Mar 20 2007 Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> - 0.6.5-6.2.fc6

 - fix for setting the security context into a proposal (32<->64bit)

 - Resolves: rhbz#232508

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected ipsec-tools and / or ipsec-tools-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f7f92fcd

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25939

File Name: fedora_2007-665.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/28/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ipsec-tools, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ipsec-tools-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-665