Issued:
2013-01-07
Updated:
2013-01-07

RHBA-2013:0077 - openswan bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

openswan bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated openswan packages that fix multiple bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

Openswan is a free implementation of IPsec and IKE (Internet Key Exchange) for Linux. This package contains the daemons and user space tools for setting up Openswan. It supports the NETKEY/XFRM IPsec kernel stack that exists in the default Linux kernel. Openswan 2.6.x also supports IKEv2 (RFC4306).

  • The openswan packages have been upgraded to incorporate a number of backported patches which provide a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#807772)

All users of openswan are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • openswan-2.6.32-4.el5.ia64.rpm
  • openswan-2.6.32-4.el5.src.rpm
  • openswan-debuginfo-2.6.32-4.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • openswan-debuginfo-2.6.32-4.el5.s390x.rpm
  • openswan-doc-2.6.32-4.el5.ppc.rpm
  • openswan-2.6.32-4.el5.i386.rpm
  • openswan-2.6.32-4.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • openswan-2.6.32-4.el5.s390x.rpm
  • openswan-debuginfo-2.6.32-4.el5.ia64.rpm
  • openswan-2.6.32-4.el5.ppc.rpm
  • openswan-debuginfo-2.6.32-4.el5.i386.rpm
  • openswan-doc-2.6.32-4.el5.ia64.rpm
  • openswan-debuginfo-2.6.32-4.el5.ppc.rpm
  • openswan-doc-2.6.32-4.el5.s390x.rpm
  • openswan-doc-2.6.32-4.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • openswan-doc-2.6.32-4.el5.i386.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information