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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1760-1] New openswan packages fix denial of service (1/

    From Steffen Joeris@1:229/2 to All on Tue Mar 31 02:10:13 2009
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1760-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Steffen Joeris
    March 30, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : openswan
    Vulnerability : denial of service
    Problem type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id : CVE-2008-4190 CVE-2009-0790
    Debian Bug : 496374


    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 stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
    version 2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1.

    For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
    version 2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1.

    For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
    (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

    We recommend that you upgrade your openswan packages.


    Upgrade instructions
    - --------------------

    wget url
    will fetch the file for you
    dpkg -i file.deb
    will install the referenced file.

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given below:

    apt-get update
    will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
    will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.


    Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
    - -------------------------------

    Debian (oldstable)
    - ------------------

    Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 92351 d43193ea57c9ba646aa9a2ae479c65dd
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3555236 e5ef22979f8a67038f445746fdc7ff38
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 887 0bb9a0b8fda2229aed2ea1e7755259db

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/linux-patch-openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 598920 7f24c626025d0725409fc5f282834859
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan-modules-source_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 525862 69a5d63858abbde46369f1178715bb23

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1742492 a6a7ab937c9a172c74e19bf85ed5af15

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1744812 6c1cd62d31174fce3dae9b8393594c73

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1719132 30678772efa350b67ba19b7eb5ebc4c2

    hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1758480 cc2108239ed20143d7dc8ead6c6cb6c0

    i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1712448 07a390d204baaf83a5fb4cb6745a786a

    ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1930720 1c95baf380d131f78767af55841566ab

    mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_mips.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1692214 90f1710f68414a17fb4d29168746bbed

    mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_mipsel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1697294 ce452a37b284bd1c49925482c4be6554

    powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_powerpc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1667818 786f2533b336ced17cb15b988586c224

    s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_s390.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1671506 d8981c0fd7db865ae7a2172b7d6a4ffa

    sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1_sparc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1622248 f6cd4abafd3ddfdcc50ad4a346bde5cf


    Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny
    - --------------------------------

    Debian (stable)
    - ---------------

    Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1315 df7cd3ea125815e36b74b98857b3d5be
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3765276 f753413e9c705dee9a23ab8db6c26ee4
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 127288 eaed626706af274b44a51210f8eb9d13

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan-modules-source_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 544388 a26397193d910b2b469fba692760e4a2
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/linux-patch-openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 609908 dbbd73cc5402dc1b3e1ae205546f4d9f

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openswan/openswan_2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1754216 1b179d83df0d9efa17f6987e9c9501d8


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