RHEL 6 : openswan (RHSA-2011:1356)

high Nessus Plugin ID 56405

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for openswan.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1356 advisory.

- openswan: IKE invalid key length allows remote unauthenticated user to crash openswan (CVE-2011-3380)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL openswan package based on the guidance in RHSA-2011:1356.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e0f480b0

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742065

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1356

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 56405

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-1356.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/6/2011

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3380

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openswan, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openswan-doc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/17/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3380

RHSA: 2011:1356