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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2005-0398 json

The KAME racoon daemon in ipsec-tools before 0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed ISAKMP packets.

published 2005-03-14 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0399

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.4%
EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The KAME racoon daemon in ipsec-tools before 0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed ISAKMP packets.

Patch / fix

  • ipsec-tools RHEL 3 0.2.5-0.7
  • ipsec-tools RHEL 4 0.3.3-6

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:232

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2005-0398 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 ipsec-tools 0.2.5-0.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 ipsec-tools 0.2.5-0.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 ipsec-tools 0.3.3-6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 ipsec-tools 0.3.3-6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 ipsec-tools 0.2.5-0.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 ipsec-tools 0.3.3-6
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 ipsec-tools 0.2.5-0.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 ipsec-tools 0.3.3-6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:232

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Exploit prediction

2.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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