openSUSE Security Update : strongswan (openSUSE-2015-432)

low Nessus Plugin ID 84283

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

strongswan was updated to fix a rogue servers vulnerability, that may enable rogue servers able to authenticate itself with certificate issued by any CA the client trusts, to gain user credentials from a client in certain IKEv2 setups (bsc#933591,CVE-2015-4171).

More information can be found on https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2015/06/08/strongswan-vulnerability-%2 8cve-2015-4171%29.html

Solution

Update the affected strongswan packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=933591

http://www.nessus.org/u?c4cda5a5

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 84283

File Name: openSUSE-2015-432.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/19/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-ipsec, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-ipsec-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-libs0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-libs0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-mysql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-nm, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-nm-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-sqlite-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-4171