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CVE-2008-3651

15
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0232 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 21,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: ipsec-tools-0:0.2.5-0.7.rhel3.5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: ipsec-tools-0:0.3.3-7.el4_7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: ipsec-tools-0:0.6.5-9.el5_2.3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-3651Moderate

ipsec-tools: racoon memory leak caused by invalid proposals

Jul 24, 2008

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
marc.info
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/31450
secunia.com / advisories/31624
secunia.com / advisories/32759
secunia.com / advisories/32971
secunia.com / advisories/35074
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200812-03.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/44395
sourceforge.net / mailarchive/message.php
sourceforge.net / project/shownotes.php
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10453
support.apple.com / kb/HT3549
support.apple.com / kb/HT3639
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0849.html
securityfocus.com / bid/30657
securitytracker.com / id
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-641-1
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html
US Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2345
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2844
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1297
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1621