Fedora Core 3 : openswan-2.1.5-2.FC3.1 (2005-082)

high Nessus Plugin ID 16285

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This erratum fixes the remote exploitation of a stack based buffer overflow vulnerability in Xelerance Corp.'s Openswan, which could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability specifically exists due to a lack of bounds checking in the pluto application when Openswan is compiled with XAUTH and PAM support.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project has assigned the name CVE-2005-0162 to this problem.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected openswan and / or openswan-debuginfo packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 16285

File Name: fedora_2005-082.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 2/2/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openswan, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openswan-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/28/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0162

FEDORA: 2005-082

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