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Fedora 44 StrongSwan Significant RCE Vulnerability CVE-2026-47895

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Calendar Grey June 21, 2026
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Critical update for Fedora 44 addressing a theoretical remote code execution issue in strongSwan VPN.
Addresses CVE-2026-47895 which is a theoretical RCE

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.

Update Information:

Addresses CVE-2026-47895 which is a theoretical RCE

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Change Log

* Sun Jun 14 2026 Paul Wouters - 6.0.7-1 - Update to 6.0.7 for CVE-2026-47895 * Fri Jun 12 2026 Yaakov Selkowitz - 6.0.6-3 - Rebuilt for openssl 4.0

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2026-284c049f7f 2026-06-22 00:50:54.985255+00:00 Name : strongswan Product : Fedora 44 Version : 6.0.7 Release : 1.fc44 URL : https://www.strongswan.org/ Summary : An OpenSource IPsec-based VPN and TNC solution Description : 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.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-284c049f7f' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: strongswan
Product: Fedora 44
Version: 6.0.7
Release: 1.fc44
URL: https://www.strongswan.org/
Summary: An OpenSource IPsec-based VPN and TNC solution

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update important RCE strongSwan

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