Summary
The remote host is missing an update to openswan
announced via advisory DSA 1898-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201898-1
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.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-2185 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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