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openSUSE Security Update : strongswan (strongswan-1050)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40138

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Two vulnerabilities in the strongswan ASN.1 parser (when handling RDNs, UTCTIME and GENERALIZEDTIME strings) could lead to remote crashes of the pluto daemon (CVE-2009-2185).

Solution

Update the affected strongswan package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515130

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40138

File Name: suse_11_0_strongswan-090626.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 6/26/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2185

CWE: 20