Subject: Re: widespread IKE bugs
To: Dries Schellekens <gwyllion@ulyssis.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-security
Date: 11/15/2005 09:07:36
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:37:04PM +0100, Dries Schellekens wrote:
>
> OpenBSD has audited their IKE parsing code early 2004 and thus is not
> vunerable:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=113199092403670&w=2
Is this merely their claim, or do they pass the test suite? We've seen
cases of OpenBSD not just missing but _introducing_ bugs during audit
in the past.
Of more relevance here is the fact that OpenBSD uses a completely
different IKE implementation than IPsec-tools and KAME, so one would
not, at least, expect to find the _same_ bugs in both.
--
Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
"The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is to be
abandoned or transcended, there is no problem." - Noam Chomsky