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RedHat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2019-3391-01 Low: Libreswan Bug Fix

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Minor patch for libreswan improves safety measures and resolves issues in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
An update for libreswan is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Libreswan is an implementation of IPsec and IKE for Linux. IPsec is the Internet Protocol Security and uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks such as virtual private network (VPN).
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: libreswan (3.29). (BZ#1738853)
Security Fix(es):
* libreswan: vulnerability in the processing of IKEv1 informational packets due to missing integrity check (CVE-2019-10155)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat bug fix VPN low severity libreswan

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10155 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: libreswan-3.29-6.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: libreswan-3.29-6.el8.aarch64.rpm libreswan-debuginfo-3.29-6.el8.aarch64.rpm libreswan-debugsource-3.29-6.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: libreswan-3.29-6.el8.ppc64le.rpm libreswan-debuginfo-3.29-6.el8.ppc64le.rpm libreswan-debugsource-3.29-6.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libreswan-3.29-6.el8.s390x.rpm libreswan-debuginfo-3.29-6.el8.s390x.rpm libreswan-debugsource-3.29-6.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: libreswan-3.29-6.el8.x86_64.rpm libreswan-debuginfo-3.29-6.el8.x86_64.rpm libreswan-debugsource-3.29-6.el8.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3391-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3391
Issue date: 2019-11-05

Topic

An update for libreswan is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat bug fix VPN low severity libreswan

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1608353 - /usr/sbin/ipsec part of the libreswan packages still invokes commands that were deprecated a decade ago

1679394 - libreswan using NSS IPsec profiles regresses when critical flags are set causing validation failure

1683706 - Libreswan shows incorrect error messages

1699318 - 'ipsec show' has python3 invalid syntax

1706180 - Remove last usage of old (unused) PF_KEY API

1712555 - libreswan rebase to 3.29

1713734 - barf: shell syntax error in barf diagnostic tool

1714141 - CVE-2019-10155 libreswan: vulnerability in the processing of IKEv1 informational packets due to missing integrity check

1714331 - support NSS based IKE KDF's so libreswan does not need FIPS certification

1723957 - libreswan is missing linux audit calls for failed IKE SAs and failed IPsec SAs required for Common Criteria

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