The Debian 'strongswan' package(s) in Debian 10 Buster has a potential denial of service vulnerability due to untrusted certificate queries
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 52 |
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![]() | strongswan -- DOS attack vulnerability | 3 Oct 202200:00 | – | freebsd |
![]() | Debian dla-3143 : charon-cmd - security update | 10 Oct 202200:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : strongswan (SUSE-SU-2022:4159-1) | 23 Nov 202200:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : strongSwan vulnerability (USN-5651-1) | 5 Oct 202200:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Photon OS 4.0: Strongswan PHSA-2022-4.0-0279 | 23 Jul 202400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | SUSE SLES12 Security Update : strongswan (SUSE-SU-2022:4185-1) | 23 Nov 202200:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : strongSwan vulnerability (USN-5651-2) | 5 Oct 202200:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: strongswan (CVE-2022-40617) | 20 Mar 202300:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Fedora 36 : strongswan (2022-11bf2b2597) | 22 Dec 202200:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Photon OS 3.0: Strongswan PHSA-2022-3.0-0485 | 24 Jul 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Source | Link |
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debian | www.debian.org/lts/security/2022/DLA-3143-1 |
wiki | www.wiki.debian.org/LTS |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.893143");
script_cve_id("CVE-2022-40617");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2022-10-12 01:00:07 +0000 (Wed, 12 Oct 2022)");
script_version("2024-02-02T05:06:08+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-02 05:06:08 +0000 (Fri, 02 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2022-11-01 14:12:32 +0000 (Tue, 01 Nov 2022)");
script_name("Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-3143-1)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2022 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages", re:"ssh/login/release=DEB10");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"DLA-3143-1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2022/DLA-3143-1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://wiki.debian.org/LTS");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'strongswan' package(s) announced via the DLA-3143-1 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"It was discovered that there was a potential denial of service vulnerability in strongswan, an IPsec VPN solution.
Strongswan could have queried URLs with untrusted certificates, and this could potentially lead to a DoS attack by blocking the fetcher thread.
CVE-2022-40617
For Debian 10 Buster, this problem has been fixed in version 5.7.2-1+deb10u3.
We recommend that you upgrade your strongswan packages.
Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: [link moved to references]");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'strongswan' package(s) on Debian 10.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");
release = dpkg_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "DEB10") {
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"charon-cmd", ver:"5.7.2-1+deb10u3", rls:"DEB10"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"charon-systemd", ver:"5.7.2-1+deb10u3", rls:"DEB10"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libcharon-extra-plugins", ver:"5.7.2-1+deb10u3", rls:"DEB10"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libstrongswan", ver:"5.7.2-1+deb10u3", rls:"DEB10"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libstrongswan-extra-plugins", ver:"5.7.2-1+deb10u3", rls:"DEB10"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libstrongswan-standard-plugins", ver:"5.7.2-1+deb10u3", rls:"DEB10"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"strongswan", ver:"5.7.2-1+deb10u3", rls:"DEB10"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"strongswan-charon", ver:"5.7.2-1+deb10u3", rls:"DEB10"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"strongswan-libcharon", ver:"5.7.2-1+deb10u3", rls:"DEB10"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"strongswan-nm", ver:"5.7.2-1+deb10u3", rls:"DEB10"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"strongswan-pki", ver:"5.7.2-1+deb10u3", rls:"DEB10"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"strongswan-scepclient", ver:"5.7.2-1+deb10u3", rls:"DEB10"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"strongswan-starter", ver:"5.7.2-1+deb10u3", rls:"DEB10"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"strongswan-swanctl", ver:"5.7.2-1+deb10u3", rls:"DEB10"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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