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.
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in openswan, an IPSec implementation for linux. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
Dmitry E. Oboukhov discovered that the livetest tool is using temporary files insecurely, which could lead to a denial of service attack.
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+etch4.
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.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.
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