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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS USN-5651-1 Moderate: strongSwan Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey October 3, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5651-1 outlines a vulnerability in strongSwan that allows for potential denial of service through specially crafted certificates.
strongSwan could be made do denial of service if it received a specially crafted certificate.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: libstrongswan 5.9.5-2ubuntu2.1 strongswan 5.9.5-2ubuntu2.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: libstrongswan 5.8.2-1ubuntu3.5 strongswan 5.8.2-1ubuntu3.5 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: libstrongswan 5.6.2-1ubuntu2.9 strongswan 5.6.2-1ubuntu2.9 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5651-1

CVE-2022-40617

October 03, 2022

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/strongswan/5.9.5-2ubuntu2.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/strongswan/5.8.2-1ubuntu3.5 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/strongswan/5.6.2-1ubuntu2.9

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