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Fedora 36: 2022-11bf2b2597 Critical: DoS Mitigation in StrongSwan

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Calendar Grey October 26, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 36 has released a patch that mitigates a security vulnerability in strongSwan, which could lead to denial of service (DoS) attacks via specially crafted certificates.
Resolves CVE-2022-40617

Summary

The strongSwan IPsec implementation supports both the IKEv1 and IKEv2 key

exchange protocols in conjunction with the native NETKEY IPsec stack of the

Linux kernel.

Resolves CVE-2022-40617

* Sun Oct 16 2022 Arne Reiter - 5.9.8-1

- Resolves rhbz#2112274 strongswan-5.9.8 is available

- Patch1 removes CFLAGS -Wno-format which interferes with -Werror=format-security

- Add BuildRequire for autoconf and automake, now required for release

- Remove obsolete patches

[ 1 ] Bug #2132444 - CVE-2022-40617 strongswan: DoS via crafted certificates URI

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2132444

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-11bf2b2597' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 36
Version: 5.9.8
Release: 1.fc36
Summary: An OpenSource IPsec-based VPN and TNC solution

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