Scientific Linux: Important Openswan Update for CVE-2008-4190

Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:00:27 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: openswan on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: openswan security update
Issue date:	2009-03-30
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-4190 CVE-2009-0790

Gerd v. Egidy discovered a flaw in the Dead Peer Detection (DPD) in
Openswan's pluto IKE daemon. A remote attacker could use a malicious DPD
packet to crash the pluto daemon. (CVE-2009-0790)

It was discovered that Openswan's livetest script created temporary
files in an insecure manner. A local attacker could use this flaw to
overwritearbitrary files owned by the user running the script.
(CVE-2008-4190)

After installing this update, the ipsec service will be restarted
automatically.

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
openswan-2.6.14-1.el5_3.2.src.rpm
 i386:
openswan-2.6.14-1.el5_3.2.i386.rpm
openswan-doc-2.6.14-1.el5_3.2.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
openswan-2.6.14-1.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm
openswan-doc-2.6.14-1.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson