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Vulnerability Bulletins


Denegación de servicio en StrongSwan

Vulnerability classification

Property Value
Confidence level Oficial
Impact Denegación de Servicio
Dificulty Experto
Required attacker level Acceso remoto sin cuenta a un servicio estandar

System information

Property Value
Affected manufacturer GNU/Linux
Affected software StrongSwan 2.8 < 2.8.11
StrongSwan 4.2 < 4.2.17
StrongSwan 4.3 < 4.3.3

Description

Se ha descubierto una vulnerabilidad en StrongSwan 2.8. La vulnerabilidad reside en un error en el manejo de los certifcados X.509.

Un atacante remoto podría causar una denegación de servicio mediante un certificado X.509 con el campo "Relative Distinguished Names" (RDNs) especialmente diseñado.

Solution



Actualización de software

Debian (DSA-1899-1)

Debian Linux 4.0
Source
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch2.diff.gz
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+etch2.dsc
alpha (DEC Alpha)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch2_alpha.deb
amd64 (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch2_amd64.deb
arm (ARM)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch2_arm.deb
hppa (HP PA RISC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch2_hppa.deb
i386 (Intel ia32)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch2_i386.deb
ia64 (Intel ia64)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch2_ia64.deb
mips (MIPS (Big Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch2_mips.deb
mipsel (MIPS (Little Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch2_mipsel.deb
powerpc (PowerPC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch2_powerpc.deb
s390 (IBM S/390)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch2_s390.deb
sparc (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch2_sparc.deb

Debian (DSA-1899-1)

Debian Linux 5.0
Source
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny3.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny3.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4.orig.tar.gz
alpha (DEC Alpha)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny3_alpha.deb
amd64 (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny3_amd64.deb
arm (ARM)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny3_arm.deb
armel (ARM EABI)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny3_armel.deb
hppa (HP PA RISC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny3_hppa.deb
i386 (Intel ia32)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny3_i386.deb
ia64 (Intel ia64)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny3_ia64.deb
mips (MIPS (Big Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny3_mips.deb
mipsel (MIPS (Little Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny3_mipsel.deb
powerpc (PowerPC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny3_powerpc.deb
s390 (IBM S/390)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny3_s390.deb
sparc (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny3_sparc.deb

Suse Linux
Las actualizaciones pueden descargarse mediante YAST o del servidor FTP oficial de Suse Linux.

Standar resources

Property Value
CVE CVE-2009-2661
BID

Other resources

Debian Security Advisory (DSA-1899-1)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2009/msg00220.html

SUSE Security Advisory (SUSE-SR:2009:016)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_16_sr.html

Version history

Version Comments Date
1.0 Aviso emitido 2009-10-09
1.1 Aviso emitido por Suse (SUSE-SR:2009:016) 2009-10-13