SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : strongswan (SUSE-SU-2019:3266-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 132009

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for strongswan provides the following fixes :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2018-5388: Fixed a buffer underflow which may allow to a remote attacker with local user credentials to resource exhaustion and denial of service while reading from the socket (bsc#1094462).

CVE-2018-10811: Fixed a denial of service during the IKEv2 key derivation if the openssl plugin is used in FIPS mode and HMAC-MD5 is negotiated as PRF (bsc#1093536).

CVE-2018-16151,CVE-2018-16152: Fixed multiple flaws in the gmp plugin which might lead to authorization bypass (bsc#1107874).

CVE-2018-17540: Fixed an improper input validation in gmp plugin (bsc#1109845).

Other issues addressed: Fixed some client fails when the scep server URL is used with HTTPS protocol (bsc#1071853).

Reject Diffie-Hellman key exchanges using primes smaller than 1024 bit.

Handle unexpected informational message from SonicWall. (bsc#1009254)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-8-2019-3266=1

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2019-3266=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP3-2019-3266=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-3266=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2019-3266=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2019-3266=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-3266=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-3266=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-BCL-2019-3266=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-3266=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2019-3266=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2019-3266=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-3266=1

SUSE Enterprise Storage 5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-5-2019-3266=1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 132009

File Name: suse_SU-2019-3266-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/12/2019

Updated: 4/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16152

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:strongswan-hmac, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:strongswan-ipsec, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:strongswan, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:strongswan-libs0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:strongswan-ipsec-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:strongswan-libs0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:strongswan-debugsource

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/11/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/31/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10811, CVE-2018-16151, CVE-2018-16152, CVE-2018-17540, CVE-2018-5388

Detections

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