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Fedora 42 strongswan Update CVE-2025-9615 CVE-2025-62291 Advisory

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2026
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Important update for Fedora 42 strongswan addresses multiple vulnerabilities. Ensure your systems are protected promptly.
Update to address CVE-2025-9615 and CVE-2025-62291

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:

Update to address CVE-2025-9615 and CVE-2025-62291

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Change Log

* Wed Mar 4 2026 Paul Wouters - 6.0.4-1 - Update to 6.0.4 for CVE-2025-9615 and CVE-2025-62291 * Sat Jan 17 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 6.0.2-5 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2312429 - strongswan-6.0.2 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2312429 [ 2 ] Bug #2406574 - strongswan-6.0.4 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2406574 [ 3 ] Bug #2430436 - CVE-2025-62291 strongswan: From CVEorg collector [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2430436

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-bd04c426b3' 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 42
Version: 6.0.4
Release: 2.fc42
URL: https://www.strongswan.org/
Summary: An OpenSource IPsec-based VPN and TNC solution

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