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openSUSE Security Update : strongswan (strongswan-676)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40311

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

By sending a specially crafted Dead Peer Detection (DPD) packet remote attackers could crash the pluto IKE daemon (CVE-2009-0790).

Solution

Update the affected strongswan package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487762

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40311

File Name: suse_11_1_strongswan-090324.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

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:11.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/24/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0790

CWE: 20