It may be possible for a remote privileged user to cause the in.iked(1M) daemon to crash or cause in.iked to send invalid data to a peer system, potentially causing that system's in.iked daemon to crash, when an IKE exchange with a malformed payload is attempted.

If in.iked crashes, then IKE can not be used to exchange keying information for IPsec, thus causing a Denial of Service (DoS) to IPsec protected network traffic.

This issue is revealed by the test suite described in NISCC vulnerability #273756, which is available at http://www.uniras.gov.uk/niscc/docs/br-20051114-01013.html?lang=en

This issue can occur in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

• Solaris 9 without patch 113451-11
• Solaris 10 without patch 118371-07

x86 Platform

• Solaris 9 without patch 114435-10
• Solaris 10 without patch 118372-07

Notes:

1. Solaris 8 does not support IKE and is not affected by this issue.
2. The described issue only affects systems configured to run the IKE (Internet Key Exchange) daemon in.iked(1M).

The in.iked(1M) daemon is configured to run on a system if the file '/etc/inet/ike/config' is present. For example, the following command can be run to determine if IKE services are configured on the system:

    $ file /etc/inet/ike/config
    /etc/inet/ike/config:   cannot open: No such file or directory

If this issue has been exploited, the IKE daemon may no longer be running on the system.

To determine if the IKE (in.iked(1M)) daemon is not running on a system which has IKE configured, the following command can be run:

    $ test ! -f /etc/inet/ike/config || pgrep in.iked || \
    echo "in.iked not running but should be"

Note: The IKE protocol is an exchange of network packets between two or more peers. One or more of the peer systems may be running an operating system other than Solaris. In order to determine if the IKE daemon is configured and running correctly on a non-Solaris system consult the operating system vendor or operating system manuals for the system.

To manually restart in.iked(1M), the following command can be run (as 'root'):

    # /usr/lib/inet/in.iked

This issue is addressed in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

• Solaris 9 with patch 113451-11 or later
• Solaris 10 with patch 118371-07 or later

x86 Platform

• Solaris 9 with patch 114435-10 or later
• Solaris 10 with patch 118372-07 or later

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