openSUSE Security Update : strongswan (openSUSE-SU-2013:0775-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 74994

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

- Applied upstream patch for security vulnerability discovered by Kevin Wojtysiak in ECDSA signature verification of the strongswan openssl plugin (bnc#815236, CVE-2013-2944) [0003-Check-return-value-of-ECDSA_Verify-correctly.patch ]

Solution

Update the affected strongswan packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815236

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-05/msg00015.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 74994

File Name: openSUSE-2013-413.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-ikev1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-ikev1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-ikev2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-ikev2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-ipsec, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-ipsec-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-libs0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-libs0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-mysql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-nm, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-nm-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-sqlite-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2944