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FS#78025 - [strongswan] 5.9.9-1: CVE-2023-26463 (authentication bypass, DoS, potentially RCE)

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Pascal Ernster (hardfalcon) - Tuesday, 28 March 2023, 21:01 GMT
Last edited by T.J. Townsend (blakkheim) - Thursday, 18 May 2023, 16:03 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Security
Status Closed
Assigned To Christian Rebischke (Shibumi)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Strongswan 5.9.8 and 5.9.9 are affected by CVE-2023-26463, and Strongswan 5.9.10 has been published to fix the issue:
https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2023/03/02/strongswan-vulnerability-(cve-2023-26463).html

Quote:
"A user publicly reported a bug related certificate verification in TLS-based EAP methods that leads to an authentication bypass followed by an expired pointer dereference that results in a denial of service but possibly even remote code execution."

Although upstream don't seem to have formally assigned a severity to this CVE, the above description leads me to believe that "high" would be an appropriate classification.
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Closed by  T.J. Townsend (blakkheim)
Thursday, 18 May 2023, 16:03 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed

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