RHEL 6 : openswan (RHSA-2011:1356)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56405

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated openswan packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Openswan is a free implementation of Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) and Internet Key Exchange (IKE). IPsec uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services.
These services allow you to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks.

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way Openswan's pluto IKE daemon handled certain error conditions. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted IKE packet that would crash the pluto daemon. (CVE-2011-3380)

Red Hat would like to thank the Openswan project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Paul Wouters as the original reporter.

All users of openswan are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
After installing this update, the ipsec service will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Update the affected openswan, openswan-debuginfo and / or openswan-doc packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3380

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1356

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56405

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-1356.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/6/2011

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openswan, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openswan-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openswan-doc

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/17/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3380

RHSA: 2011:1356