Executive Summary

Summary
Title strongSwan vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2811-1 First vendor Publication 2015-11-16
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-11-16
Severity (Vendor) N/A 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:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 15.10 - Ubuntu 15.04 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

strongSwan could be made to bypass authentication.

Software Description: - strongswan: IPsec VPN solution

Details:

It was discovered that the strongSwan eap-mschapv2 plugin incorrectly handled state. A remote attacker could use this issue to bypass authentication.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 15.10:
strongswan-plugin-eap-mschapv2 5.1.2-0ubuntu6.2

Ubuntu 15.04:
strongswan-plugin-eap-mschapv2 5.1.2-0ubuntu5.3

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
strongswan-plugin-eap-mschapv2 5.1.2-0ubuntu2.4

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2811-1
CVE-2015-8023

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/strongswan/5.1.2-0ubuntu6.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/strongswan/5.1.2-0ubuntu5.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/strongswan/5.1.2-0ubuntu2.4

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2811-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
50 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 41
Os 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-12-29 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-2183-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-04 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-2183-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-04 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-2186-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-30 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-810.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-20 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-345.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-17 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3398.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-17 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_3eb0ccc28c6a11e58519005056ac623e.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-17 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2811-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2015-11-19 21:29:04
  • Multiple Updates
2015-11-18 21:28:47
  • Multiple Updates
2015-11-18 13:26:30
  • Multiple Updates
2015-11-16 21:23:21
  • First insertion