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Scientific Linux: Important Openswan Advisory CVE-2009-2185 Remote Crash

Calendar Jul 02, 2009 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory remote attack input validation daemon crash openswan scientific linux
Important: openswan security update 
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:48:52 -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:	2009-07-02
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-2185

Multiple insufficient input validation flaws were found in the way
Openswan's pluto IKE daemon processed some fields of X.509 certificates.
A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted X.509 certificate
that would crash the pluto daemon. (CVE-2009-2185)

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

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
openswan-2.6.14-1.el5_3.3.src.rpm
 i386:
openswan-2.6.14-1.el5_3.3.i386.rpm
openswan-doc-2.6.14-1.el5_3.3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
openswan-2.6.14-1.el5_3.3.x86_64.rpm
openswan-doc-2.6.14-1.el5_3.3.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson