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SuSE 11 Security Update : strongswan (SAT Patch Number 1042)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 41456

Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

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

Apply SAT patch number 1042.

See Also

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

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-2185.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 41456

File Name: suse_11_strongswan-090626.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, 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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:strongswan-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:strongswan

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/26/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2185

CWE: 20