[CentOS] probes on udp port 500

[Mike Kercher]

centos-bounces at centos.org <> scribbled on Tuesday, August 02, 2005 6:15 PM:

> On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 00:32 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>> Am Di, den 02.08.2005 schrieb Aleksandar Milivojevic um 23:06:
>> 
>>> Last couple of days some of my hosts were probed for UDP port 500
>>> (IKE daemon, used by IPSec for key exchange) from dialup
> IPs.  Don't
>>> remember seeing similar probes before.  Some new
> vaulnerability that
>>> script kiddies (and pro crackers) are trying out, or is this some
>>> old stuff?  I do remember there were some security problems with
>>> racoon in the past (that were fixed in current CentOS ipsec-tools
>>> packages), but don't remember reading anywhere there were any
>>> automated tools to exploit it floating around.  Or are
> there some new flaws discovered recently in some IKE implementations?
>> 
>> 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:19.ips
>> ec.asc
>> 
>> Alexander
>> 
> What relevance to Centos 4.1 does this have?
> 
> Ted

Since when is this list dedicated to Centos 4.1?

Mike