CentOS 5 : openswan (CESA-2011:1422)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56694

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated openswan packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

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.

A use-after-free flaw was found in the way Openswan's pluto IKE daemon used cryptographic helpers. A remote, authenticated attacker could send a specially crafted IKE packet that would crash the pluto daemon.
This issue only affected SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) systems that have the cryptographic helpers enabled. The helpers are disabled by default on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, but enabled by default on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. (CVE-2011-4073)

Red Hat would like to thank the Openswan project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Petar Tsankov, Mohammad Torabi Dashti and David Basin of the information security group at ETH Zurich as the original reporters.

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

Solution

Update the affected openswan packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56694

File Name: centos_RHSA-2011-1422.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 11/3/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openswan, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:openswan-doc, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/17/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4073

BID: 50440

RHSA: 2011:1422

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