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Fedora 11 : openswan-2.6.21-5.fc11 (2009-7478)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39773

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes Openswan PSK issue with NSS. Fixes CVE-2009-2185

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?b1e6434a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39773

File Name: fedora_2009-7478.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/13/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11, 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: 35452

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2009-7478