DSA-1898-1 openswan -- denial of service

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1898-1 openswan -- denial of service

Date Reported:

02 Oct 2009

Affected Packages:

openswan

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-2185.

More information:

It was discovered that the pluto daemon in openswan, an implementation of IPSEC and IKE, could crash when processing a crafted X.509 certificate.

For the old stable 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+lenny2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.22+dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your openswan package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:

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+etch4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch4.dsc

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan-modules-source_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch4_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/linux-patch-openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch4_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch4_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch4_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch4_arm.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch4_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch4_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch4_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch4_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch4_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch4_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+lenny2.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+lenny2.diff.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/linux-patch-openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny2_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan-modules-source_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny2_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny2_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny2_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny2_arm.deb

ARM EABI:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny2_armel.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny2_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny2_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny2_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.