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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2374-1 (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 2374-1.
Insight
Insight
The information security group at ETH Zurich discovered a denial of service vulnerability in the crypto helper handler of the IKE daemon pluto. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny4. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.6.28+dfsg-5+squeeze1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.6.37-1.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your openswan packages.