Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1759-1 strongswan -- denial of service

Date Reported:

30 Mar 2009

Affected Packages:

strongswan

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-0790.

More information:

Gerd v. Egidy discovered that the Pluto IKE daemon in strongswan, an IPSec implementation for linux, is prone to a denial of service attack via a malicious packet.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 4.2.4-5+lenny1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your strongswan packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1.diff.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_arm.deb
ARM EABI:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_armel.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/strongswan/strongswan_4.2.4-5+lenny1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.