MDVSA-2009:273
- Package name
- strongswan
- Date
- 2009-10-12
- Advisory ID
- MDVSA-2009:273
- Affected versions
- MNF2.0 i586
Problem description
A vulnerability has been found and corrected in strongswan:
The ASN.1 parser (pluto/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1.c,
libstrongswan/asn1/asn1_parser.c) in (a) strongSwan 2.8 before 2.8.10,
4.2 before 4.2.16, and 4.3 before 4.3.2; and (b) openSwan 2.6 before
2.6.22 and 2.4 before 2.4.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial
of service (pluto IKE daemon crash) via an X.509 certificate with (1)
crafted Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs), (2) a crafted UTCTIME
string, or (3) a crafted GENERALIZEDTIME string (CVE-2009-2185).
This update fixes this vulnerability.
Updated packages
MNF2.0 i586
f6381e633c85c2bcc8e3ca37bc7244b4 mnf/2.0/i586/strongswan-2.0.2-1.1.M20mdk.i586.rpm efae951734094a0318c61d9fa7142369 mnf/2.0/SRPMS/strongswan-2.0.2-1.1.M20mdk.src.rpm