Security update for ipsec-tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:0423-1
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2016-10396 ( SUSE ): 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2016-10396 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products:
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description:

This update for ipsec-tools fixes one issue.

This security issue was fixed:

  • CVE-2016-10396: The racoon daemon contained a remotely exploitable computational-complexity attack when parsing and storing ISAKMP fragments that allowed a remote attacker to exhaust computational resources on the remote endpoint by repeatedly sending ISAKMP fragment packets in a particular order (bsc#1047443).

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 SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-ipsec-tools-13463=1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-ipsec-tools-13463=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
    • ipsec-tools-0.7.3-1.38.3.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (ppc64 x86_64)
    • ipsec-tools-0.7.3-1.38.3.1

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