Debian DSA-2374-1: Moderate Denial of Service in Openswan IKE Daemon

The information security group at ETH Zurich discovered a denial of
service vulnerability in the crypto helper handler of the IKE daemon
pluto. More information can be found in the upstream advisory at


For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny4.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:2.6.28+dfsg-5+squeeze1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:2.6.37-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your openswan packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/