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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1898-1 (openswan)

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

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to openswan announced via advisory DSA 1898-1.

Insight

Insight

It was discovered that the pluto daemon in the openswan, an implementation of IPSEC and IKE, could crash when processing a crafted X.509 certificate. For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch2. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.22+dfsg-1. We recommend that you upgrade your openswan package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201898-1

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