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Debian Security Advisory DSA-4989-1                   security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/                        Yves-Alexis Perez
October 18, 2021                      https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : strongswan
CVE ID         : CVE-2021-41990 CVE-2021-41991

Researchers at the United States of America National Security Agency (NSA)
identified two denial of services vulnerability in strongSwan, an IKE/IPsec
suite.

CVE-2021-41990

    RSASSA-PSS signatures whose parameters define a very high salt length can
    trigger an integer overflow that can lead to a segmentation fault.
    .
    Generating a signature that bypasses the padding check to trigger the crash
    requires access to the private key that signed the certificate.  However,
    the certificate does not have to be trusted.  Because the gmp and the
    openssl plugins both check if a parsed certificate is self-signed (and the
    signature is valid), this can e.g.  be triggered by an unrelated
    self-signed CA certificate sent by an initiator.

CVE-2021-41991

    Once the in-memory certificate cache is full it tries to randomly replace
    lesser used entries. Depending on the generated random value, this could
    lead to an integer overflow that results in a double-dereference and a call
    using out-of-bounds memory that most likely leads to a segmentation fault.
    .
    Remote code execution can't be ruled out completely, but attackers have no
    control over the dereferenced memory, so it seems unlikely at this point.

For the oldstable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed
in version 5.7.2-1+deb10u1.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in
version 5.9.1-1+deb11u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your strongswan packages.

For the detailed security status of strongswan please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/strongswan

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Debian: DSA-4989-1: strongswan security update

October 18, 2021
Researchers at the United States of America National Security Agency (NSA) identified two denial of services vulnerability in strongSwan, an IKE/IPsec suite

Summary

CVE-2021-41990

RSASSA-PSS signatures whose parameters define a very high salt length can
trigger an integer overflow that can lead to a segmentation fault.
.
Generating a signature that bypasses the padding check to trigger the crash
requires access to the private key that signed the certificate. However,
the certificate does not have to be trusted. Because the gmp and the
openssl plugins both check if a parsed certificate is self-signed (and the
signature is valid), this can e.g. be triggered by an unrelated
self-signed CA certificate sent by an initiator.

CVE-2021-41991

Once the in-memory certificate cache is full it tries to randomly replace
lesser used entries. Depending on the generated random value, this could
lead to an integer overflow that results in a double-dereference and a call
using out-of-bounds memory that most likely leads to a segmentation fault.
.
Remote code execution can't be ruled out completely, but attackers have no
control over the dereferenced memory, so it seems unlikely at this point.

For the oldstable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed
in version 5.7.2-1+deb10u1.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in
version 5.9.1-1+deb11u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your strongswan packages.

For the detailed security status of strongswan please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/strongswan

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Severity
Researchers at the United States of America National Security Agency (NSA)
identified two denial of services vulnerability in strongSwan, an IKE/IPsec
suite.

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