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Gentoo: GLSA-201501-15 Normal: OpenSSL Vulnerability Exploitation Issue

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Calendar Grey December 13, 2014
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Recent findings reveal two security holes in strongSwan that may result in Denial of Service or an unpermitted authentication bypass. Immediate updates are highly recommended.
Two vulnerabilities have been found in strongSwan, possibly resulting in Denial of Service or a bypass in authentication restrictions.

Summary

A NULL pointer dereference and an error in the IKEv2 implementation have been found in strongSwan.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo authentication bypass strongswan

Resolution

All strongSwan users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/strongswan-5.1.3"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-2338 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2338 [ 2 ] CVE-2014-2891 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2891

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201412-26
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: strongSwan: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date: December 13, 2014
Bugs: #507722, #509832
ID: 201412-26

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo authentication bypass strongswan

Synopsis

Two vulnerabilities have been found in strongSwan, possibly resulting in Denial of Service or a bypass in authentication restrictions.

Background

strongSwan is an IPSec implementation for Linux.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/strongswan < 5.1.3 >= 5.1.3

Impact

===== A remote attacker could create a Denial of Service condition or bypass security restrictions.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.