Scientific Linux 6.x: CVE-2010-3302 Moderate: Openswan Buffer Overflow

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 15:52:02 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: openswan on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: openswan security update
Issue date:	2010-11-16
CVE Names:	CVE-2010-3302 CVE-2010-3308 CVE-2010-3752
 CVE-2010-3753

Two buffer overflow flaws were found in the Openswan client-side XAUTH
handling code used when connecting to certain Cisco gateways. A
malicious or compromised VPN gateway could use these flaws to execute
arbitrary code on the connecting Openswan client. (CVE-2010-3302,
CVE-2010-3308)

Two input sanitization flaws were found in the Openswan client-side
handling of Cisco gateway banners. A malicious or compromised VPN
gateway could use these flaws to execute arbitrary code on the
connecting Openswan client. (CVE-2010-3752, CVE-2010-3753)

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

SL 6.x

 SRPMS:
openswan-2.6.24-8.el6_0.1.src.rpm
 i386:
openswan-2.6.24-8.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
openswan-doc-2.6.24-8.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
 x86_64:
openswan-2.6.24-8.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm
openswan-doc-2.6.24-8.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson