[SECURITY] [DSA 2374-1] openswan security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-2374-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
December 26, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : openswan
Vulnerability : implementation error
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2011-4073
Debian Bug : 650674

The information security group at ETH Zurich discovered a denial of
service vulnerability in the crypto helper handler of the IKE daemon
pluto. More information can be found in the upstream advisory at
http://openswan.org/download/CVE-2011-4073/CVE-2011-4073.txt

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny4.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:2.6.28+dfsg-5+squeeze1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:2.6.37-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your openswan packages.

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