openSUSE Security Update : strongswan (openSUSE-SU-2014:0697-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 75367

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

strongswan was fixed to correct two issues :

- Fix for DoS vulnerability by a NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2014-2891).

- Fix for a authentication bypass vulnerability in the IKEv2 code (CVE-2014-2338).

Solution

Update the affected strongswan packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 75367

File Name: openSUSE-2014-384.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-mysql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-ipsec-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-libs0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-nm, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-sqlite-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-nm-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-ipsec, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan-libs0

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2338, CVE-2014-2891

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