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SUSE: 2014:0529-1 Critical: StrongSwan Authentication Bypass

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Calendar Grey April 15, 2014
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SUSE releases vital security patch addressing serious vulnerability in strongswan. Ensure your systems are secure with the most recent updates and fixes.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

The following security issue is fixed by this update: * bnc#870572: strongswan has been updated to fix an authentication problem where attackers could have bypassed the IKEv2 authentication. (CVE-2014-2338) Security Issue reference: * CVE-2014-2338 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware: zypper in -t patch slessp3-strongswan-9089 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3: zypper in -t patch slessp3-strongswan-9089 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS: zypper in -t patch slessp2-strongswan-9091 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS: zypper in -t patch slessp1-strongswan-9090

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update authentication issue critical severity SUSE strongswan

References

#870572

Cross- CVE-2014-2338

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-2338.html

https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/

https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/

https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/

https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/

https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2014:0529-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update authentication issue critical severity SUSE strongswan

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