Issued:
2012-09-11
Updated:
2012-09-11

RHBA-2012:1249 - ipsec-tools bug fix update

Synopsis

ipsec-tools bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated ipsec-tools packages that fix two bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The ipsec-tools packages contain configuration and management tools for the IPsec protocol.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Under certain circumstances, the racoon daemon terminated unexpectedly due to referencing a NULL pointer when writing to the system log. The update ensures that the NULL pointer is never referenced by racoon in this scenario, thus fixing this bug. (BZ#852735)

  • When using the setkey command to dump the pfkey database, the setkey command could decrease the size of a kernel buffer that is used to send the data. Consequently, the dumped database was incomplete and the operation failed with an error in the recv() function. With this update, setkey never decreases the kernel buffer size, thus preventing this bug. (BZ#852734)

All users of ipsec-tools are advised to upgrade to these updated package, which fix these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • ipsec-tools-debuginfo-0.6.5-14.el5_8.5.s390x.rpm
  • ipsec-tools-debuginfo-0.6.5-14.el5_8.5.x86_64.rpm
  • ipsec-tools-0.6.5-14.el5_8.5.ppc.rpm
  • ipsec-tools-0.6.5-14.el5_8.5.x86_64.rpm
  • ipsec-tools-debuginfo-0.6.5-14.el5_8.5.ia64.rpm
  • ipsec-tools-0.6.5-14.el5_8.5.ia64.rpm
  • ipsec-tools-debuginfo-0.6.5-14.el5_8.5.i386.rpm
  • ipsec-tools-0.6.5-14.el5_8.5.s390x.rpm
  • ipsec-tools-0.6.5-14.el5_8.5.i386.rpm
  • ipsec-tools-0.6.5-14.el5_8.5.src.rpm
  • ipsec-tools-debuginfo-0.6.5-14.el5_8.5.ppc.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information