Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1759-1 strongswan -- denial of service
- Date Reported:
- 30 Mar 2009
- Affected Packages:
- strongswan
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-0790.
- More information:
-
Gerd v. Egidy discovered that the Pluto IKE daemon in strongswan, an IPSec implementation for linux, is prone to a denial of service attack via a malicious packet.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 4.2.4-5+lenny1.
For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your strongswan packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_arm.deb
- ARM EABI:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_armel.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.