Alpine: openswan: security update to 2.6.38-r1 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 401242

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- Buffer overflow in the atodn function in Openswan before 2.6.39, when Opportunistic Encryption is enabled
and an RSA key is being used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pluto IKE daemon
crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted DNS TXT records. NOTE: this might be the same
vulnerability as CVE-2013-2052 and CVE-2013-2054. (CVE-2013-2053)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 401242

Version: Revision 1.24

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-2053

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/13/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2053

BID: 59838

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