USN-3301-1: strongSwan vulnerabilities
USN-3301-1: strongSwan vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3301-1 30th May, 2017 strongswan vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.04 Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary strongSwan could be made to crash or hang if it received specially crafted network traffic. Software description strongswan – IPsec VPN solution Details It was discovered that the strongSwan gmp plugin incorrectly validated RSApublic keys. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause strongSwan tocrash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9022) It was discovered that strongSwan incorrectly parsed ASN.1 CHOICE types. Aremote attacker could use this issue to cause strongSwan to hang, resultingin a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9023) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 17.04: libstrongswan 5.5.1-1ubuntu3.1 strongswan 5.5.1-1ubuntu3.1 Ubuntu 16.10: strongswan 5.3.5-1ubuntu4.3 [ more… ]