Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in strongSwan, possibly allowing remote attackers to authenticate as other users or cause a Denial of Service condition.
Package | net-misc/strongswan on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 5.1.0 |
Unaffected versions | >= 5.1.0 |
strongSwan is an IPSec implementation for Linux.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in strongSwan. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
A remote attacker could use ECDSA to authenticate as another user with an invalid signature. Additionally, a remote attacker could send a specially crafted request, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All strongSwan users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/strongswan-5.1.0"