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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for openswan (ALAS-2014-303) (CVE-2013-6466)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for openswan (ALAS-2014-303) (CVE-2013-6466)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/26/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/08/2014
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Openswan 2.6.39 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and IKE daemon restart) via IKEv2 packets that lack expected payloads.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-openswan
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-openswan-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-openswan-doc

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