Debian 5.0 DSA-1898-1 Critical: Openswan Denial Of Service Issue

It was discovered that the pluto daemon in the openswan, an
implementation of IPSEC and IKE, could crash when processing a crafted
X.509 certificate.

For the old stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch2.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.6.22+dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your openswan package.

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 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

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