Two vulnerabilities were fixed in Openswan, an IKE/IPsec implementation for Linux. CVE-2013-2053 During an audit of Libreswan (with which Openswan shares some code), Florian Weimer found a remote buffer overflow in the atodn() function. This vulnerability can be triggered when Opportunistic Encryption (OE) is enabled and an attacker controls the PTR record of a peer IP address. Authentication is not needed to trigger the vulnerability. CVE-2013-6466 Iustina Melinte found a vulnerability in Libreswan which also applies to the Openswan code. By carefuly crafting IKEv2 packets, an attacker can make the pluto daemon dereference non-received IKEv2 payload, leading to the daemon crash. Authentication is not needed to trigger the vulnerability. Patches were originally written to fix the vulnerabilities in Libreswan, and have been ported to Openswan by Paul Wouters from the Libreswan Project. Since the Openswan package is not maintained anymore in the Debian distribution and is not available in testing and unstable suites, it is recommended for IKE/IPsec users to switch to a supported implementation like strongSwan.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 2.6.28+dfsg-5+squeeze2. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 2.6.37-3.1. We recommend that you upgrade your openswan packages.

Openswan is an IPsec based VPN solution for the Linux kernel. It can use the native IPsec stack as well as the KLIPS kernel module. Both IKEv1 and IKEv2 protocols are supported.

openswan on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2893.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25