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Debian DLA-1528-1 : strongswan security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 117889

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a denial of service vulnerability in strongswan, a virtual private network (VPN) client and server.

Verification of an RSA signature with a very short public key caused an integer underflow in a length check that resulted in a heap buffer overflow.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in strongswan version 5.2.1-6+deb8u8.

We recommend that you upgrade your strongswan packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00001.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/strongswan

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 117889

File Name: debian_DLA-1528.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/3/2018

Updated: 8/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous 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-2018-17540

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:debian:debian_linux:strongswan-libcharon, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan-starter, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libstrongswan, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan-ike, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan-ikev1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan-charon, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcharon-extra-plugins, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libstrongswan-standard-plugins, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libstrongswan-extra-plugins, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan-nm, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:charon-cmd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan-ikev2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/2/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17540