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Fedora 10 : openswan-2.6.21-2.fc10 (2009-7423)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39772

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Mon Jul 6 2009 Avesh Agarwal <avagarwa at redhat.com> - 2.6.21-2

 - Openswan ASN.1 parser vulnerability (CVE-2009-2185)

 - Mon Mar 30 2009 Avesh Agarwal <avagarwa at redhat.com>
 - 2.6.21-1

 - new upstream release

 - Fix for CVE-2009-0790 DPD crasher

 - Fix remaining SADB_EXT_MAX -> K_SADB_EXT_MAX entries

 - Fix ipsec setup --status not showing amount of tunnels with netkey

 - Wed Dec 17 2008 Avesh Agarwal <avagarwa at redhat.com>
 - 2.6.19-1

 - new upstream release

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected openswan package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507362

http://www.nessus.org/u?49d3e0c9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39772

File Name: fedora_2009-7423.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/13/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openswan

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/11/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2185

BID: 34296, 35452

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2009-7423