Fedora 41 : libreswan (2024-342c3cc98f)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 211090

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-342c3cc98f advisory.

Automatic update for libreswan-4.15-2.fc41.

##### **Changelog**

```
* Sat Jun 22 2024 Paul Wouters <[email protected]> - 4.15-2
- Add libreswan-4.15-ipsec_import.patch
* Sat Jun 22 2024 Paul Wouters <[email protected]> - 4.15-1
- Update libreswan to 4.15 for CVE-2024-3652
- Resolves rhbz#2274448 CVE-2024-3652 libreswan: IKEv1 default AH/ESP responder can crash and restart
- Allow ipsec import to try importing PKCS#12 non-interactively if there is no password

```

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 211090

File Name: fedora_2024-342c3cc98f.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 11/14/2024

Updated: 11/14/2024

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: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-3652

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:fedoraproject:fedora:libreswan, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-3652

FEDORA: 2024-342c3cc98f

IAVA: 2024-A-0255

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