Debian DLA-2788-1 : strongswan - LTS security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 154257

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-2788 advisory.

Researchers at the United States of America National Security Agency (NSA) identified a denial of services vulnerability in strongSwan, an IKE/IPsec suite. Once the in-memory certificate cache is full it tries to randomly replace lesser used entries. Depending on the generated random value, this could lead to an integer overflow that results in a double-dereference and a call using out-of-bounds memory that most likely leads to a segmentation fault. Remote code execution can't be ruled out completely, but attackers have no control over the dereferenced memory, so it seems unlikely at this point. For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 5.5.1-4+deb9u5. We recommend that you upgrade your strongswan packages. For the detailed security status of strongswan please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/strongswan Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at:
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the strongswan packages.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 5.5.1-4+deb9u5.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 154257

File Name: debian_DLA-2788.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/20/2021

Updated: 1/24/2025

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-41991

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan-ike, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan-ikev1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan-starter, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan-charon, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:charon-systemd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan-scepclient, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libcharon-extra-plugins, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libstrongswan-standard-plugins, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libstrongswan-extra-plugins, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan-nm, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:charon-cmd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan-ikev2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan-libcharon, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan-pki, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libstrongswan, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan-swanctl

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/19/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/18/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-41991

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