RHEL 6 : openswan (RHSA-2010:0892)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 50645

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for openswan.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2010:0892 advisory.

Openswan is a free implementation of Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) and Internet Key Exchange (IKE). IPsec uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks.

Two buffer overflow flaws were found in the Openswan client-side XAUTH handling code used when connecting to certain Cisco gateways. A malicious or compromised VPN gateway could use these flaws to execute arbitrary code on the connecting Openswan client. (CVE-2010-3302, CVE-2010-3308)

Two input sanitization flaws were found in the Openswan client-side handling of Cisco gateway banners. A malicious or compromised VPN gateway could use these flaws to execute arbitrary code on the connecting Openswan client. (CVE-2010-3752, CVE-2010-3753)

Red Hat would like to thank the Openswan project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges D. Hugh Redelmeier and Paul Wouters as the original reporters.

All users of openswan are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. After installing this update, the ipsec service will be restarted automatically.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL openswan package based on the guidance in RHSA-2010:0892.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 50645

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2010-0892.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/18/2010

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-3753

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-3302

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openswan, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openswan-doc

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/16/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/5/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3302, CVE-2010-3308, CVE-2010-3752, CVE-2010-3753

BID: 43588

CWE: 119, 78

RHSA: 2010:0892

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