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SUSE: 2022:4159-1 Moderate: StrongSwan Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey November 22, 2022
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The latest strongswan update resolves a critical denial of service vulnerability, enhancing the security and reliability for SUSE users.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update for strongswan fixes the following issues: - CVE-2022-40617: Fixed that using untrusted URIs for revocation checking could lead to denial of service (bsc#1203556) Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Leap 15.3: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2022-4159=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15-SP3: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-WE-15-SP3-2022-4159=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Packagehub Subpackages 15-SP3: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP3-2022-4159=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP3:

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security advisory moderate denial of service suse strongswan

References

#1203556

Cross- CVE-2022-40617

CVSS scores:

CVE-2022-40617 (NVD) : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2022-40617 (SUSE): 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Packagehub Subpackages 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15-SP3

SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2

SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2

SUSE Manager Server 4.2

openSUSE Leap 15.3

https://www.suse.com/security/...

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2022:4159-1
Rating: moderate

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