SUSE SLES11 Security Update : strongswan (SUSE-SU-2015:1791-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 86539

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

strongswan was updated to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed :

- CVE-2015-4171: A problem that could enable rogue servers to gain user credentials from a client in certain IKEv2 setups. (bsc#933591)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-strongswan-12152=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-strongswan-12152=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 86539

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1791-1.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/22/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:strongswan, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:strongswan-doc, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/14/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/10/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-4171

BID: 74933

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