Debian Security Advisory
DSA-201-1 freeswan -- denial of service
- Date Reported:
- 02 Dec 2002
- Affected Packages:
- freeswan
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-0666.
CERT's vulnerabilities, advisories and incident notes: VU#459371. - More information:
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Bindview discovered a problem in several IPSEC implementations that do not properly handle certain very short packets. IPSEC is a set of security extensions to IP which provide authentication and encryption. Free/SWan in Debian is affected by this and is said to cause a kernel panic.
This problem has been fixed in version 1.96-1.4 for the current stable distribution (woody) and in version 1.99-1 for the unstable distribution (sid). The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain Free/SWan packages.
We recommend that you upgrade your freeswan package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeswan/freeswan_1.96-1.4.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeswan/freeswan_1.96-1.4.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeswan/freeswan_1.96.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeswan/freeswan_1.96-1.4.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeswan/kernel-patch-freeswan_1.96-1.4_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeswan/freeswan_1.96-1.4_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeswan/freeswan_1.96-1.4_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeswan/freeswan_1.96-1.4_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeswan/freeswan_1.96-1.4_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeswan/freeswan_1.96-1.4_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeswan/freeswan_1.96-1.4_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeswan/freeswan_1.96-1.4_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeswan/freeswan_1.96-1.4_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeswan/freeswan_1.96-1.4_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeswan/freeswan_1.96-1.4_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/freeswan/freeswan_1.96-1.4_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.