Bug 640715 – CVE-2010-3753 Openswan: Gateway arbitrary execution via shell metacharacters in the cisco_banner

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Bug 640715 - (CVE-2010-3753) CVE-2010-3753 Openswan: Gateway arbitrary execution via shell metacharacters in the cisco_banner

Summary:	CVE-2010-3753 Openswan: Gateway arbitrary execution via shell metacharacters ...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2010-3753

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	635058 635060
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Reported:	2010-10-06 12:57 EDT by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified:	2016-02-15 08:56 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2010-11-16 15:01:33 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2010:0892	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: openswan security update	2010-11-16 13:17:34 EST

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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-10-06 12:57:30 EDT

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-3753 to
the following vulnerability:

programs/pluto/xauth.c in the client in Openswan 2.6.26 through 2.6.28
allows remote authenticated gateways to execute arbitrary commands via
shell metacharacters in the cisco_banner (aka server_banner) field, a
different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3308.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3753
[2] http://www.openswan.org/download/CVE-2010-3308/CVE-2010-3308.txt
[3] http://www.openswan.org/download/CVE-2010-3308/openswan-2.6.26-2.6.28-CVE-2010-330x.patch
[4] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43588
[5] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2526

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Openswan project for reporting this issue.
Upstream acknowledges D. Hugh Redelmeier and Paul Wouters as the original
reporters.

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-10-06 12:59:59 EDT

This issue did NOT affect the version of the openswan package, as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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This issue does NOT affect the versions of the openswan package, as shipped
with Fedora release of 12 and 13 (relevant package versions are already
updated).

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2010-11-16 13:17:54 EST

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2010:0892 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0892.html

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