A vulnerability was found in the libreswan library. This security issue occurs when an IKEv1 Aggressive Mode packet is received with only unacceptable crypto algorithms, and the response packet is not sent with a zero responder SPI. When a subsequent packet is received where the sender reuses the libreswan responder SPI as its own initiator SPI, the pluto daemon state machine crashes. No remote code execution is possible. This CVE exists because of a CVE-2023-30570 security regression for libreswan package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A vulnerability was found in the libreswan library. This security issue occurs when an IKEv1 Aggressive     Mode packet is received with only unacceptable crypto algorithms, and the response packet is not sent with     a zero responder SPI. When a subsequent packet is received where the sender reuses the libreswan responder     SPI as its own initiator SPI, the pluto daemon state machine crashes. No remote code execution is     possible. This CVE exists because of a CVE-2023-30570 security regression for libreswan package in Red Hat     Enterprise Linux 8.8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2. (CVE-2023-2295)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2024:0039 advisory.

    Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2023-2295:
    A vulnerability was found in the libreswan library. This security issue occurs when an IKEv1 Aggressive     Mode packet is received with only unacceptable crypto algorithms, and the response packet is not sent with     a zero responder SPI. When a subsequent packet is received where the sender reuses the libreswan responder     SPI as its own initiator SPI, the pluto daemon state machine crashes. No remote code execution is     possible. This CVE exists because of a CVE-2023-30570 security regression for libreswan package in Red Hat     Enterprise Linux 8.8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2.

    CVE-2023-30570:
    pluto in Libreswan before 4.11 allows a denial of service (responder SPI mishandling and daemon crash) via     unauthenticated IKEv1 Aggressive Mode packets. The earliest affected version is 3.28.

    CVE-2023-38710:
    An issue was discovered in Libreswan before 4.12. When an IKEv2 Child SA REKEY packet contains an invalid     IPsec protocol ID number of 0 or 1, an error notify INVALID_SPI is sent back. The notify payload's     protocol ID is copied from the incoming packet, but the code that verifies outgoing packets fails an     assertion that the protocol ID must be ESP (2) or AH(3) and causes the pluto daemon to crash and restart.
    NOTE: the earliest affected version is 3.20.

    CVE-2023-38711:
    An issue was discovered in Libreswan before 4.12. When an IKEv1 Quick Mode connection configured with     ID_IPV4_ADDR or ID_IPV6_ADDR receives an IDcr payload with ID_FQDN, a NULL pointer dereference causes a     crash and restart of the pluto daemon. NOTE: the earliest affected version is 4.6.

    CVE-2023-38712:
    An issue was discovered in Libreswan 3.x and 4.x before 4.12. When an IKEv1 ISAKMP SA Informational     Exchange packet contains a Delete/Notify payload followed by further Notifies that act on the ISAKMP SA,     such as a duplicated Delete/Notify message, a NULL pointer dereference on the deleted state causes the     pluto daemon to crash and restart.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-3107 advisory.

    - Fix CVE-2023-30570: Malicious IKEv1 Aggressive Mode packets can crash       libreswan

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2023:3107 advisory.

  - A vulnerability was found in the libreswan library. This security issue occurs when an IKEv1 Aggressive     Mode packet is received with only unacceptable crypto algorithms, and the response packet is not sent with     a zero responder SPI. When a subsequent packet is received where the sender reuses the libreswan responder     SPI as its own initiator SPI, the pluto daemon state machine crashes. No remote code execution is     possible. This CVE exists because of a CVE-2023-30570 security regression for libreswan package in Red Hat     Enterprise Linux 8.8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2. (CVE-2023-2295)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2023:3107 advisory.

  - A vulnerability was found in the libreswan library. This security issue occurs when an IKEv1 Aggressive     Mode packet is received with only unacceptable crypto algorithms, and the response packet is not sent with     a zero responder SPI. When a subsequent packet is received where the sender reuses the libreswan responder     SPI as its own initiator SPI, the pluto daemon state machine crashes. No remote code execution is     possible. This CVE exists because of a CVE-2023-30570 security regression for libreswan package in Red Hat     Enterprise Linux 8.8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2. (CVE-2023-2295)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2023:3148 advisory.

  - A vulnerability was found in the libreswan library. This security issue occurs when an IKEv1 Aggressive     Mode packet is received with only unacceptable crypto algorithms, and the response packet is not sent with     a zero responder SPI. When a subsequent packet is received where the sender reuses the libreswan responder     SPI as its own initiator SPI, the pluto daemon state machine crashes. No remote code execution is     possible. This CVE exists because of a CVE-2023-30570 security regression for libreswan package in Red Hat     Enterprise Linux 8.8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2. (CVE-2023-2295)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-3148 advisory.

    - Fix CVE-2023-30570:Malicious IKEv1 Aggressive Mode packets can crash       libreswan

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:3148 advisory.

    Libreswan is an implementation of IPsec and IKE for Linux. IPsec is the Internet Protocol Security and     uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you     to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks such as virtual private network (VPN).

    Security Fix(es):

    * libreswan: Regression of CVE-2023-30570 fixes in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (CVE-2023-2295)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:3107 advisory.

    Libreswan is an implementation of IPsec and IKE for Linux. IPsec is the Internet Protocol Security and     uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you     to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks such as virtual private network (VPN).

    Security Fix(es):

    * libreswan: Regression of CVE-2023-30570 fixes in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (CVE-2023-2295)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
260139	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-2295	Nessus	Misc.	high
236374	Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0039: libreswan (ALINUX3-SA-2024:0039)	Nessus	Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks	high
176335	Oracle Linux 8 : libreswan (ELSA-2023-3107)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
176124	AlmaLinux 8 : libreswan (ALSA-2023:3107)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	high
176082	Rocky Linux 8 : libreswan (RLSA-2023:3107)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	high
176056	AlmaLinux 9 : libreswan (ALSA-2023:3148)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	high
175994	Oracle Linux 9 : libreswan (ELSA-2023-3148)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
175943	RHEL 9 : libreswan (RHSA-2023:3148)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
175894	RHEL 8 : libreswan (RHSA-2023:3107)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high

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