The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2024:1998 advisory.

  - The Libreswan Project was notified of an issue causing libreswan to restart under some IKEv2 retransmit     scenarios when a connection is configured to use PreSharedKeys (authby=secret) and the connection cannot     find a matching configured secret. When such a connection is automatically added on startup using the     auto= keyword, it can cause repeated crashes leading to a Denial of Service. (CVE-2024-2357)

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

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Rocky Linux 8 : libreswan (RLSA-2024:1998)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 195006

Version 1.0