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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63732
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1760-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'openswan' package(s) announced via the DSA-1760-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'openswan' package(s) announced via the DSA-1760-1 advisory.

Vulnerability 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 oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your openswan packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'openswan' package(s) on Debian 4, Debian 5.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-4190
BugTraq ID: 31243
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31243
Bugtraq: 20090310 Re: [ GLSA 200903-18 ] Openswan: Insecure temporary file creation (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501624/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501640/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1760 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1760
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9135
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/30/2
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10078
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0402.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/34182
http://secunia.com/advisories/34472
XForce ISS Database: openswan-livetest-symlink(45250)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45250
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-0790
1021949
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021949
1021950
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021950
20090330 CVE-2009-0790: ISAKMP DPD Remote Vulnerability with Openswan & Strongswan IPsec
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502270/100/0/threaded
34296
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34296
34472
34483
http://secunia.com/advisories/34483
34494
http://secunia.com/advisories/34494
34546
http://secunia.com/advisories/34546
ADV-2009-0886
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0886
DSA-1759
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1759
DSA-1760
RHSA-2009:0402
SUSE-SR:2009:009
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html
http://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES4.txt
http://www.openswan.org/CVE-2009-0790/CVE-2009-0790.txt
openswan-strongswan-dpd-dos(49523)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49523
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11171
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11171
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