Security update for ipsec-tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:1367-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP3
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware 11-SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4

An update that solves one vulnerability and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description:

ipsec-tools was updated to fix one security issue and a bug.

This security issue was fixed:

  • CVE-2015-4047: racoon/gssapi.c in ipsec-tools allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and IKE daemon crash) via a series of crafted UDP requests (bsc#931989).

Due to a packaging error, the racoonf.conf config file was symlinked to /usr/share/doc/packages/ipsec-tools/examples/racoon/samples/racoon.conf on some processor platforms, edits might have happened only in this example file.

Before upgrading, please check if /etc/racoon/racoon.conf is a symlink to this example file and backup the content. (bsc#939810)

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware 11-SP3
    zypper in -t patch slessp3-ipsec-tools-12024=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
    zypper in -t patch slessp3-ipsec-tools-12024=1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP3
    zypper in -t patch slessp3-ipsec-tools-12024=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-ipsec-tools-12024=1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-ipsec-tools-12024=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware 11-SP3 (x86_64 i586)
    • ipsec-tools-0.7.3-1.13.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
    • ipsec-tools-0.7.3-1.13.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP3 (x86_64)
    • ipsec-tools-0.7.3-1.13.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
    • ipsec-tools-0.7.3-1.13.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (ppc64 x86_64)
    • ipsec-tools-0.7.3-1.13.1

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