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Debian DSA-1898-1 : openswan - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44763

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that the pluto daemon in openswan, an implementation of IPSEC and IKE, could crash when processing a crafted X.509 certificate.

Solution

Upgrade the openswan package.

For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch2.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny2.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1898

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44763

File Name: debian_DSA-1898.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openswan, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/2/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2185

BID: 35452

CWE: 20

DSA: 1898