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openSUSE Security Update : strongswan (strongswan-965)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40137

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes two denial of service bugs that can lead to a remote pre-auth crash while processing a IKE_SA_INIT or a IKE_AUTH request.
CVE-2009-1957 and CVE-2009-1958 have been assigned to this issue.

Solution

Update the affected strongswan package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507742

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40137

File Name: suse_11_0_strongswan-090608.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1957, CVE-2009-1958

CWE: 399