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Debian DSA-1759-1 : strongswan - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 36052

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Gerd v. Egidy discovered that the Pluto IKE daemon in strongswan, an IPSec implementation for linux, is prone to a denial of service attack via a malicious packet.

Solution

Upgrade the strongswan packages.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 4.2.4-5+lenny1.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1759

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 36052

File Name: debian_DSA-1759.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/31/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:strongswan, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0790

BID: 34296

CWE: 20

DSA: 1759