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Amazon Linux AMI : openswan (ALAS-2011-18)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69577

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

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.

Solution

Run 'yum update openswan' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2011-18.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69577

File Name: ala_ALAS-2011-18.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/4/2013

Updated: 4/18/2018

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openswan, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openswan-doc, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:openswan-debuginfo

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4073

ALAS: 2011-18

RHSA: 2011:1422