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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1759-1 (strongswan)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to strongswan announced via advisory DSA 1759-1.

Insight

Insight

Gerd v. Egidy discovered that the Pluto IKE daemon in strongswan, an IPSec implementation for linux, is prone to a denial of service attack via a malicious packet. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 4.2.4-5+lenny1. For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1. For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your strongswan packages.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201759-1

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