Debian DSA-1760-1 : openswan - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 36053

Synopsis

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

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in openswan, an IPSec implementation for linux. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2008-4190 Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that the livetest tool is using temporary files insecurely, which could lead to a denial of service attack.

- CVE-2009-0790 Gerd v. Egidy discovered that the Pluto IKE daemon in openswan is prone to a denial of service attack via a malicious packet.

Solution

Upgrade the openswan packages.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496374

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4190

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-0790

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1760

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 36053

File Name: debian_DSA-1760.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/31/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openswan, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4190, CVE-2009-0790

BID: 31243, 34296

CWE: 20, 59

DSA: 1760