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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : strongSwan vulnerability (USN-2628-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 84045

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2628-1 advisory.

 Alexander E. Patrakov discovered that strongSwan incorrectly handled certain IKEv2 setups. A malicious server could possibly use this issue to obtain user credentials.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2628-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 84045

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2628-1.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/9/2015

Updated: 8/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-4171

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-farp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-eap-simaka-sql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-sql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-ikev1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-ipseckey, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-xauth-noauth, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-nm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-ike, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-coupling, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-openssl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-unity, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-pt-tls-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-eap-dynamic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-dnskey, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-eap-sim, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-dnscert, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-pkcs11, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-whitelist, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-lookip, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-ldap, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-gmp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-eap-tls, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-error-notify, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-load-tester, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-pgp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-agent, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-eap-tnc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-eap-aka, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libstrongswan, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-eap-md5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-duplicheck, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-eap-ttls, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-eap-simaka-pseudonym, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-eap-sim-file, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-systime-fix, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-eap-mschapv2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-pubkey, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-tnc-ifmap, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-mysql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-tnc-base, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-dhcp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-eap-sim-pcsc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-xauth-eap, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-attr-sql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-radattr, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-xauth-pam, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-tnc-pdp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-eap-radius, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-tnc-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-led, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-eap-peap, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-sshkey, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-gcrypt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-eap-gtc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-curl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-fips-prf, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-xauth-generic, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-starter, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-unbound, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-tnc-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-af-alg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-eap-aka-3gpp2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-eap-simaka-reauth, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-ikev2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-certexpire, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-soup, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:strongswan-plugin-ntru

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/10/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-4171

USN: 2628-1