Scientific Linux Security Update : openswan on SL5.x i386/x86_64

medium Nessus Plugin ID 60558

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Synopsis

The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Gerd v. Egidy discovered a flaw in the Dead Peer Detection (DPD) in Openswan's pluto IKE daemon. A remote attacker could use a malicious DPD packet to crash the pluto daemon. (CVE-2009-0790)

It was discovered that Openswan's livetest script created temporary files in an insecure manner. A local attacker could use this flaw to overwritearbitrary files owned by the user running the script.
(CVE-2008-4190)

After installing this update, the ipsec service will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Update the affected openswan and / or openswan-doc packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 60558

File Name: sl_20090330_openswan_on_SL5_x.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Scientific Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/1/2012

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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: x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4190, CVE-2009-0790

CWE: 20, 59

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