Executive Summary

Summary
Title strongSwan: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201309-02 First vendor Publication 2013-09-01
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2013-09-01
Severity (Vendor) Low Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5.1 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 4.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in strongSwan, possibly allowing remote attackers to authenticate as other users or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

strongSwan is an IPSec implementation for Linux.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in strongSwan. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could use ECDSA to authenticate as another user with an invalid signature. Additionally, a remote attacker could send a specially crafted request, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All strongSwan users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/strongswan-5.1.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2013-2054 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-2054
[ 2 ] CVE-2013-2944 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-2944
[ 3 ] CVE-2013-5018 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5018

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-02.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-02.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
67 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
33 % CWE-287 Improper Authentication

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25008
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25008
Title: SUSE-SU-2013:1237-2 -- Security update for strongswan
Description: This update fixes the ECDSA signature vulnerability in strongswan. CVE-2013-2944 was assigned to this issue. Security Issue reference: * CVE-2013-2944 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2944 >
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): SUSE-SU-2013:1237-2
CVE-2013-2944
Version: 3
Platform(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
Product(s): strongswan
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25881
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25881
Title: SUSE-SU-2013:1237-3 -- Security update for strongswan
Description: This update fixes the ECDSA signature vulnerability in strongswan. CVE-2013-2944 was assigned to this issue.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): SUSE-SU-2013:1237-3
CVE-2013-2944
Version: 3
Platform(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
Product(s): strongswan
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25882
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25882
Title: SUSE-SU-2013:1237-1 -- Security update for strongswan
Description: This update fixes the ECDSA signature vulnerability in strongswan. CVE-2013-2944 has been assigned to this issue. Security Issue reference: * CVE-2013-2944 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2944 >
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): SUSE-SU-2013:1237-1
CVE-2013-2944
Version: 3
Platform(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
Product(s): strongswan
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 115
Os 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-412.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-413.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-414.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-643.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-645.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-01-28 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_efa663eb875411e39a4700163e1ed244.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-12-13 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_strongswan-131101.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-02 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201309-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-21 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-14481.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-21 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-14510.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-02 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_strongswan-130701.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-02 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_strongswan-130702.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-25 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_strongswan-8546.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-24 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_strongswan-130416.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-05-04 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_6ff570cbb41811e2b27920cf30e32f6d.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-05-01 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2665.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:37:42
  • Multiple Updates
2013-09-02 05:19:29
  • First insertion