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Fedora 41 : strongswan (2024-dc9e695c3a)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 211128

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-dc9e695c3a advisory.

 Automatic update for strongswan-5.9.14-1.fc41.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Fri May 31 2024 Paul Wouters <[email protected]> - 5.9.14-1
 - Resolves: rhbz#2254560 CVE-2023-41913 buffer overflow and possible RCE
 - Resolved: rhbz#2250666 Update to 5.9.14 (IKEv2 OCSP extensions, seqno/regno overflow handling
 - Update to 5.9.13 (OCSP nonce set regression configuration option charon.ocsp_nonce_len)
 - Update to 5.9.12 (CVE-2023-41913 fix, various IKEv2 fixes)

 ```

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 strongswan package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-dc9e695c3a

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 211128

File Name: fedora_2024-dc9e695c3a.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

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: Medium

Score: 5.9

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-2023-41913

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:strongswan, 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: 6/1/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-41913