Summary
The remote host is missing an update to openswan
announced via advisory DSA 2374-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202374-1
Insight
The information security group at ETH Zurich discovered a denial of service vulnerability in the crypto helper handler of the IKE daemon pluto. More information can be found in the upstream advisory at http://openswan.org/download/CVE-2011-4073/CVE-2011-4073.txt
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.
We recommend that you upgrade your openswan packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-4073 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
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