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Debian LTS: DLA-1522-1 StrongSwan Security Fix for GMP Plugin Issues

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2018
Dist Debian Esm H88
Ubuntu LTS issued a patch for openvpn resolving various tls plugin vulnerabilities, improving safe communication.
Sze Yiu Chau and his team from Purdue University and The University of Iowa found several security issues in the gmp plugin for strongSwan, an IKE/IPsec suite
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Summary

CVE-2018-16151

The OID parser in the ASN.1 code in gmp allows any number of random
bytes after a valid OID.

CVE-2018-16152

The algorithmIdentifier parser in the ASN.1 code in gmp doesn't
enforce a NULL value for the optional parameter which is not used
with any PKCS#1 algorithm.

For Debian 8 "Jessie", these problems have been fixed in version
5.2.1-6+deb8u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your strongswan packages.

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


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Package: strongswan
Version: 5.2.1-6+deb8u7
CVE ID: CVE-2018-16151 CVE-2018-16152

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