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Oracle Linux 9 : libreswan (ELSA-2024-2033)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 193812

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-2033 advisory.

 - Fix CVE-2024-2357 (RHEL-29734)
 - Update to 4.12 to fix CVE-2023-38710, CVE-2023-38711, CVE-2023-38712
 - Just bumping up the version to include bugs for CVE-2023-2295. There is no code fix for it. Fix for it is including the code fix for CVE-2023-30570.
 - Fix CVE-2023-2295 Regression of CVE-2023-30570 fixes in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
 - Fix CVE-2023-30570:Malicious IKEv1 Aggressive Mode packets can crash libreswan
 - Fix CVE-2023-23009: remote DoS via crafted TS payload with an incorrect selector length (rhbz#2173674)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux 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

Update the affected libreswan package.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-2033.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 193812

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-2033.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/24/2024

Updated: 11/25/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-2357

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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:oracle:linux:libreswan, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9

Required KB Items: Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/24/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-2357