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Scientific Linux Security Update : openswan on SL5.x i386/x86_64
medium Nessus Plugin ID 60558
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Synopsis
The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.Description
Gerd v. Egidy discovered a flaw in the Dead Peer Detection (DPD) in Openswan's pluto IKE daemon. A remote attacker could use a malicious DPD packet to crash the pluto daemon. (CVE-2009-0790)It was discovered that Openswan's livetest script created temporary files in an insecure manner. A local attacker could use this flaw to overwritearbitrary files owned by the user running the script.
(CVE-2008-4190)
After installing this update, the ipsec service will be restarted automatically.
Solution
Update the affected openswan and / or openswan-doc packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 60558
File Name: sl_20090330_openswan_on_SL5_x.nasl
Version: 1.6
Type: local
Agent: unix
Published: 8/1/2012
Updated: 1/14/2021
Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
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: x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2009
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-4190, CVE-2009-0790