Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1760-1 openswan -- denial of service
- Date Reported:
- 30 Mar 2009
- Affected Packages:
- openswan
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 496374.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-4190, CVE-2009-0790. - More information:
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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.
- CVE-2008-4190
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/linux-patch-openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan-modules-source_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan-modules-source_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan-modules-source_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/linux-patch-openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/linux-patch-openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1_arm.deb
- ARM EABI:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1_armel.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.