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TITLE:
Red Hat update for openswan

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34493

VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/34493/

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for openswan. This fixes a vulnerability
and a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious people to
cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and by malicious, local users to
perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

1) An error in the processing of Dead Peer Detection packets can be
exploited to cause a crash.

For more information:
SA34483

2) The "IPSEC livetest" tool uses the "ipseclive.conn" and
"ipsec.olts.remote.log" temporary files in an insecure manner. This
can be exploited to e.g. overwrite arbitrary files via symlink
attacks.

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
https://rhn.redhat.com/

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2009:0402-1:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0402.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA34483:
https://secunia.com/advisories/34483/

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