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Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200406-20 (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 updates announced in advisory GLSA 200406-20.
Insight
Insight
FreeS/WAN, Openswan, strongSwan and Super-FreeS/WAN contain two bugs when authenticating PKCS#7 certificates. This could allow an attacker to authenticate with a fake certificate.
Solution
Solution
All FreeS/WAN 1.9x users should upgrade to the latest stable version: # emerge sync # emerge -pv '=net-misc/freeswan-1.99-r1' # emerge '=net-misc/freeswan-1.99-r1' All FreeS/WAN 2.x users should upgrade to the latest stable version: # emerge sync # emerge -pv '>=net-misc/freeswan-2.04-r1' # emerge '>=net-misc/freeswan-2.04-r1' All Openswan 1.x users should upgrade to the latest stable version: # emerge sync # emerge -pv '=net-misc/openswan-1.0.6_rc1' # emerge '=net-misc/openswan-1.0.6_rc1' All Openswan 2.x users should upgrade to the latest stable version: # emerge sync # emerge -pv '>=net-misc/openswan-2.1.4' # emerge '>=net-misc/openswan-2.1.4' All strongSwan users should upgrade to the latest stable version: # emerge sync # emerge -pv '>=net-misc/strongswan-2.1.3' # emerge '>=net-misc/strongswan-2.1.3' All Super-FreeS/WAN users should migrate to the latest stable version of Openswan. Note that Portage will force a move for Super-FreeS/WAN users to Openswan. # emerge sync # emerge -pv '=net-misc/openswan-1.0.6_rc1' # emerge '=net-misc/openswan-1.0.6_rc1' http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200406-20 http://lists.openswan.org/pipermail/dev/2004-June/000370.html