Debian DSA-1899-1 : strongswan - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44764

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Synopsis

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

Description

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in strongswan, an implementation of the IPSEC and IKE protocols. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2009-1957 CVE-2009-1958 The charon daemon can crash when processing certain crafted IKEv2 packets. (The old stable distribution (etch) was not affected by these two problems because it lacks IKEv2 support.)

- CVE-2009-2185 CVE-2009-2661 The pluto daemon could crash when processing a crafted X.509 certificate.

Solution

Upgrade the strongswan packages.

For the old stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch2.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 4.2.4-5+lenny3.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44764

File Name: debian_DSA-1899.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

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: 3.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan, 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-2009-1957, CVE-2009-1958, CVE-2009-2185, CVE-2009-2661

BID: 35178, 35452

CWE: 20, 310, 399

DSA: 1899

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