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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2903-1 (strongswan - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
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.