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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.702665
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2665-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'strongswan' package(s) announced via the DSA-2665-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'strongswan' package(s) announced via the DSA-2665-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Kevin Wojtysiak discovered a vulnerability in strongSwan, an IPsec based VPN solution.

When using the OpenSSL plugin for ECDSA based authentication, an empty, zeroed or otherwise invalid signature is handled as a legitimate one. An attacker could use a forged signature to authenticate like a legitimate user and gain access to the VPN (and everything protected by this).

While the issue looks like CVE-2012-2388 (RSA signature based authentication bypass), it is unrelated.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 4.4.1-5.3.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.2-1.5+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.6.4-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your strongswan packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'strongswan' package(s) on Debian 6, Debian 7.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
4.9

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-2944
BugTraq ID: 59580
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59580
Debian Security Information: DSA-2665 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2665
http://download.strongswan.org/patches/10_openssl_ecdsa_signature_patch/strongswan-4.3.5-5.0.3_openssl_ecdsa_signature.patch
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2013:0774 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-05/msg00014.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2013:0873 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00010.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2013:0985 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00121.html
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