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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: USN-5651-2 Critical: StrongSwan Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey October 3, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5651-2 discusses a vulnerability in strongSwan that could lead to a denial of service when processing maliciously designed certificates.
strongSwan could be made do denial of service if it received a specially crafted certificate.

Summary

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security advisory denial of service critical issue ubuntu strongswan

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: libstrongswan 5.3.5-1ubuntu3.8+esm3 strongswan 5.3.5-1ubuntu3.8+esm3 Ubuntu 14.04 ESM: libstrongswan 5.1.2-0ubuntu2.11+esm3 strongswan 5.1.2-0ubuntu2.11+esm3 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5651-2

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

CVE-2022-40617

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October 03, 2022

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