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ELSA-2009-1138 Important: Enterprise Linux openswan security update

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ELSA-2009-1138 Important: Enterprise Linux openswan security update

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

06/24/2009

Created

07/25/2018

Added

12/20/2011

Modified

07/04/2017

Description

The ASN.1 parser (pluto/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1_parser.c) in (a) strongSwan 2.8 before 2.8.10, 4.2 before 4.2.16, and 4.3 before 4.3.2; and (b) openSwan 2.6 before 2.6.22 and 2.4 before 2.4.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pluto IKE daemon crash) via an X.509 certificate with (1) crafted Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs), (2) a crafted UTCTIME string, or (3) a crafted GENERALIZEDTIME string.

Solution(s)

oracle-linux-upgrade-openswan
oracle-linux-upgrade-openswan-doc

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2009-2185
35452
CVE - 2009-2185
DSA-1898
DSA-1899
OVAL11079
RHSA-2009:1138
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2009-July/001067.html

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