Summary
The remote host is missing an update to openswan
announced via advisory DSA 1760-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201760-1
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.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-4190, CVE-2009-0790 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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