CVE-2006-1646 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the racoon IKE daemon via crafted packets when aggressive mode is enabled, causing denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2006-1646?
CVE-2006-1646 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 6 Apr 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Internet Key Exchange version 1 (IKEv1) implementation (isakmp_agg.c) in the Shoichi Sakane KAME Project racoon, as used by NetBSD 1.6, 2.x before 20060119, certain FreeBSD releases, and possibly other distributions of BSD or Linux operating systems, when running in aggressive mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via crafted IKE packets, as demonstrated by the PROTOS ISAKMP Test Suite for IKEv1.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-1646?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Internet Key Exchange Internet Key Exchange.
How do I fix CVE-2006-1646?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-1646 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2006-1646 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-1646 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rjhx-jgh9-pm4q.