Fedora 17 : strongswan-4.6.4-1.fc17 (2012-8815)

high Nessus Plugin ID 59436

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

RSA signature verification vulnerability (CVE-2012-2388) Fix bug 821733 and update to new upstream version

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 strongswan package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=821733

http://www.nessus.org/u?d4c631db

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 59436

File Name: fedora_2012-8815.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/11/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:strongswan, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/2/2012

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2012-8815