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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2903-1 (strongswan - security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.4

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

9 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

An authentication bypass vulnerability was found in charon, the daemon handling IKEv2 in strongSwan, an IKE/IPsec suite. The state machine handling the security association (IKE_SA) handled some state transitions incorrectly. An attacker can trigger the vulnerability by rekeying an unestablished IKE_SA during the initiation itself. This will trick the IKE_SA state to established without the need to provide any valid credential. Vulnerable setups include those actively initiating IKEv2 IKE_SA (like ?clients? or ?roadwarriors?) but also during re-authentication (which can be initiated by the responder). Installations using IKEv1 (pluto daemon in strongSwan 4 and earlier, and IKEv1 code in charon 5.x) is not affected.

Affected Software

Affected Software

strongswan on Debian Linux

Detection Method

Detection Method

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

Solution

Solution

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 4.4.1-5.5. For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.2-1.5+deb7u3. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 5.1.2-4. We recommend that you upgrade your strongswan packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)