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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1760-1 (openswan)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to openswan announced via advisory DSA 1760-1.
Insight
Insight
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in openswan, an IPSec implementation for linux. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2008-4190 Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that the livetest tool is using temporary files insecurely, which could lead to a denial of service attack. CVE-2009-0790 Gerd v. Egidy discovered that the Pluto IKE daemon in openswan is prone to a denial of service attack via a malicious packet. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1. For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1. For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your openswan packages.
Solution
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201760-1