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SUSE: 2015:2183-2 Important: StrongSwan Authentication Bypass

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Calendar Grey December 21, 2015
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SUSE Security Patch for strongswan resolves critical authentication bypass flaw with significant updates now accessible.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

The strongswan package was updated to fix the following security issue: - CVE-2015-8023: Fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability in the eap-mschapv2 plugin (bsc#953817). 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 12-SP1: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2015-934=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2015-934=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 (ppc64le s390x x86_64): strongswan-5.1.3-22.1 strongswan-debugsource-5.1.3-22.1 strongswan-hmac-5.1.3-22.1 strongswan-ipsec-5.1.3-22.1 strongswan-ipsec-debuginfo-5.1.3-22.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical patch authentication bypass SUSE Linux Enterprise strongswan

References

#953817

Cross- CVE-2015-8023

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8023.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953817

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:2183-2
Rating: important

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