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Fedora 11: 2009-7478 Critical: Openswan PSK and ASN.1 Issues Fixed

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Addresses Openswan PSK problem and ASN.1 parser flaw for Fedora 11 through security patch.
Fixes Openswan PSK issue with NSS

Summary

Openswan is a free implementation of IPsec & IKE for Linux. IPsec is

the Internet Protocol Security and uses strong cryptography to provide

both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you

to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks. Everything passing

through the untrusted net is encrypted by the ipsec gateway machine and

decrypted by the gateway at the other end of the tunnel. The resulting

tunnel is a virtual private network or VPN.

This package contains the daemons and userland tools for setting up

Openswan. It optionally also builds the Openswan KLIPS IPsec stack that

is an alternative for the NETKEY/XFRM IPsec stack that exists in the

default Linux kernel.

Openswan 2.6.x also supports IKEv2 (RFC4309)

Update Information:

Fixes Openswan PSK issue with NSS. Fixes CVE-2009-2185

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security advisory network security Fedora critical fix Openswan ASN.1 parser PSK issue

Change Log

* Mon Jul 6 2009 Avesh Agarwal - 2.6.21-5 - Added support for using PSK with NSS - Fixed several warnings and undid unnecessary comments - Updated README.nss with an example configuration - Fixed Openswan ASN.1 parser vulnerability (CVE-2009-2185)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #507362 - CVE-2009-2185 Openswan ASN.1 parser vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507362

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update openswan' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: openswan
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 2.6.21
Release: 5.fc11
URL: https://openswan.org/
Summary: Openswan IPSEC implementation

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security advisory network security Fedora critical fix Openswan ASN.1 parser PSK issue

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