KAME Racoon "Initial Contact" SA Deletion Vulnerability

BID:9417

Info

KAME Racoon "Initial Contact" SA Deletion Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 9417
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2004-0164
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 14 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 02:06AM
Credit: Discovered by Thomas Walpuski <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: SGI ProPack 3.0
SCO Unixware 7.1.4
KAME Racoon
+ FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.9
+ NetBSD NetBSD 1.6.1
+ NetBSD NetBSD 1.6
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

KAME Racoon "Initial Contact" SA Deletion Vulnerability

It has been reported that it may be possible for attackers to remotely delete security associations (SAs) in hosts running the KAME IKE daemon Racoon.

Exploit / POC

KAME Racoon "Initial Contact" SA Deletion Vulnerability

Though no exploit code is available, a detailed description of an attack that exploits this vulnerability is included in the message by Thomas Walpuski &lt;[email protected]&gt;. See the reference section.

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] &lt;mailto:[email protected]&gt;.

Solution / Fix

KAME Racoon "Initial Contact" SA Deletion Vulnerability

Solution:
SGI has released an advisory (20040506-01-U) with Patch 10075 for SGI ProPack 3 to address this and other issues. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

NetBSD has released an advisory that includes updates. Fix details may be found in the attached advisory.

Red Hat has released advisory RHSA-2004:165-09 dealing with this and other issues for their enterprise linux distribution. Customers subscribed to the Red Hat Network may apply the appropriate fixes using the Red Hat Update Agent (up2date). Please see referenced advisory for additional information.

The vendor has released a patch to address this issue.

SCO has released advisory SCOSA-2005.10 to address various issues in Racoon affecting UnixWare 7.1.4. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.


KAME Racoon

SGI ProPack 3.0

SCO Unixware 7.1.4

References

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