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openswan: denial of service

Package(s):openswan CVE #(s):CVE-2011-4073
Created:November 3, 2011 Updated:March 16, 2012
Description:

From the Red Hat advisory:

A use-after-free flaw was found in the way Openswan's pluto IKE daemon used cryptographic helpers. A remote, authenticated attacker could send a specially-crafted IKE packet that would crash the pluto daemon. This issue only affected SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) systems that have the cryptographic helpers enabled. The helpers are disabled by default on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, but enabled by default on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. (CVE-2011-4073)

Alerts:
Debian DSA-2374-1 2011-12-26
Fedora FEDORA-2011-15127 2011-10-29
Fedora FEDORA-2011-15077 2011-10-29
Fedora FEDORA-2011-15196 2011-11-01
Oracle ELSA-2011-1422 2011-11-03
Oracle ELSA-2011-1422 2011-11-03
Scientific Linux SL-open-20111102 2011-11-02
CentOS CESA-2011:1422 2011-11-03
Red Hat RHSA-2011:1422-01 2011-11-02
Gentoo 201203-13 2012-03-16
Mageia MGASA-2012-0300 2012-10-20

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