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Mageia 9: serious buffer overflow flaw found in strongswan MGASA-2025-0272

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Calendar Grey November 10, 2025
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Updated strongswan packages in Mageia address critical buffer overflow risk from EAP-MSCHAPv2 handling.
MGASA-2025-0272 - Updated strongswan packages fix security vulnerability

Summary

Description: Buffer Overflow When Handling EAP-MSCHAPv2 Failure Requests. (CVE-2025-62291)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34705

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- https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2025/10/27/strongswan-vulnerability-).html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62291

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical strongSwan Mageia cve-2025-62291

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/strongswan-5.9.14-1.1.mga9

Severity
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Publication date: 10 Nov 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0272.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2025-62291

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical strongSwan Mageia cve-2025-62291

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