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USN-6488-2: strongSwan vulnerability

14 December 2023

strongSwan could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

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Releases

Packages

Details

USN-6488-1 fixed a vulnerability in strongSwan. This update provides
the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Original advisory details:

Florian Picca discovered that strongSwan incorrectly handled certain DH
public values. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause strongSwan
to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

Related notices

  • USN-6488-1: strongswan, strongswan-libcharon, strongswan-scepclient, strongswan-pki, charon-cmd, libstrongswan, strongswan-tnc-base, strongswan-starter, strongswan-tnc-pdp, libcharon-standard-plugins, strongswan-nm, libcharon-extra-plugins, strongswan-tnc-client, strongswan-tnc-ifmap, libstrongswan-standard-plugins, strongswan-swanctl, strongswan-tnc-server, charon-systemd, libstrongswan-extra-plugins, libcharon-extauth-plugins, strongswan-charon