CVE-2008-3651 describes a memory leak vulnerability in the racoon daemon of ipsec-tools, specifically in racoon/proposal.c, affecting versions prior to 0.7.1. This flaw allows remote authenticated users to trigger a denial of service by sending invalid proposals, leading to memory consumption. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity requiring authentication, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:linux:ipsec_tools_racoon_daemon:0.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.2.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:linux:ipsec_tools_racoon_daemon:0.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:linux:ipsec_tools_racoon_daemon:0.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:linux:ipsec_tools_racoon_daemon:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:linux:ipsec_tools_racoon_daemon:0.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
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