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Debian DLA-2909-1 : strongswan - LTS security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 157379

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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-2909 advisory.

 - In strongSwan before 5.9.5, a malicious responder can send an EAP-Success message too early without actually authenticating the client and (in the case of EAP methods with mutual authentication and EAP-only authentication for IKEv2) even without server authentication. (CVE-2021-45079)

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+deb9u6.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/strongswan

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2022/dla-2909

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-45079

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/strongswan

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 157379

File Name: debian_DLA-2909.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/4/2022

Updated: 2/8/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-45079

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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: 2/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-45079