cannot start openswan service

[kevin123456ok]

I'm using Ubuntu system, when I try to start the openswan service by:
systemctl start openswan.service
it returns:
Failed to start openswan.service: Unit openswan.service not found.

[Dhariaj]

can you try service ipsec start?

[shussain]

@kevin123456ok Does your issue still exist?

[ChinmayChoudhury]

I am facing the same issue. I tried ipsec start and then systemctl start openswan.service, but I still get the same error.
I am referring to this article [https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/topic/vulnvpn/], and when I perform ipsec auto --up vpn I get error whack: is Pluto running? connect() for "/var/run/pluto/pluto.ctl" failed (111 Connection refused). I found a wiki article that says to start openswan.service first but till now no luck

[letoams]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2021, Chinmay Nrusingh Choudhury wrote: I am facing the same issue. I tried ipsec start and then systemctl start openswan.service, but I still get the same error. I am referring to this article [https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/topic/vulnvpn/], and when I perform ipsec auto --up vpn I get error whack: is Pluto running? connect() for "/var/run/pluto/pluto.ctl" failed (111 Connection refused). I found a wiki article that says to start openswan.service first but till now no luck

That article is old, from before openswan was removed from debian for not responding to CVE issues. libreswan is the dropin replacement you can use.

[ChinmayChoudhury]

When I check my auth.log file I have these two ABORT logs

Mar 30 09:50:53 kali pluto[10976]: ABORT at /home/[user]/Downloads/Openswan-master/lib/libalgoparse/alg_info.c:77
Mar 30 09:50:53 kali pluto[10976]: ABORT at /home/[user]/Downloads/Openswan-master/lib/libalgoparse/alg_info.c:77
Mar 30 09:50:53 kali pluto[10978]: using /dev/urandom as source of random entropy
Mar 30 09:50:53 kali pluto[10978]: pluto_crypto_helper: helper [nonnss] (0) is exiting normally 

Is this a normal behaviour? If not, is there a way I can fix it? Could this be a reason why pluto connect issue is occurring?

[letoams]

That’s a pluto crash. If this was in response to a received packet, that’s a CVE security issue. If it crashed just by loading your conn, it’s just a really bad bug.

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On Mar 30, 2021, at 09:56, Chinmay Nrusingh Choudhury ***@***.***> wrote:  When I check my auth.log file I have these two ABORT logs Mar 30 09:50:53 kali pluto[10976]: ABORT at /home/[user]/Downloads/Openswan-master/lib/libalgoparse/alg_info.c:77 Mar 30 09:50:53 kali pluto[10976]: ABORT at /home/[user]/Downloads/Openswan-master/lib/libalgoparse/alg_info.c:77 Mar 30 09:50:53 kali pluto[10978]: using /dev/urandom as source of random entropy Mar 30 09:50:53 kali pluto[10978]: pluto_crypto_helper: helper [nonnss] (0) is exiting normally Is this a normal behaviour? If not, is there a way I can fix it? Could this be a reason why pluto connect issue is occurring? — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.