ipsec-tools -- remotely exploitable computational-complexity attack

Robert Foggia via NetBSD GNATS reports:

The ipsec-tools racoon daemon contains a remotely exploitable computational complexity attack when parsing and storing isakmp fragments. The implementation permits a remote attacker to exhaust computational resources on the remote endpoint by repeatedly sending isakmp fragment packets in a particular order such that the worst-case computational complexity is realized in the algorithm utilized to determine if reassembly of the fragments can take place.

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