Debian: DSA-1760-1 Critical: Openswan Denial of Service Issue

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
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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 mana...