Fedora Core 2 : ipsec-tools-0.2.5-4 (2004-197)

high Nessus Plugin ID 13732

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

When configured to use X.509 certificates to authenticate remote hosts, ipsec-tools versions 0.3.3 and earlier will attempt to verify that host certificate, but will not abort the key exchange if the verification fails.

Users of ipsec-tools should upgrade to this updated package which contains a backported security patch and is not vulnerable to this issue.

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 ipsec-tools and / or ipsec-tools-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e7cb1410

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 13732

File Name: fedora_2004-197.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2004

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ipsec-tools, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ipsec-tools-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:2

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/28/2004

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2004-197