Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 / 26.04 LTS : strongSwan vulnerability (USN-8407-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8407-1 advisory. Elliott Childre discovered that strongSwan incorrectly handled the cloning of certain identities. A remote attacker could use this...

USN-8407-1 strongswan vulnerability

Elliott Childre discovered that strongSwan incorrectly handled the cloning of certain identities. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause strongSwan to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

USN-8407-1: strongSwan vulnerability

Elliott Childre discovered that strongSwan incorrectly handled the cloning of certain identities. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause strongSwan to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

strongSwan -- Double-free when destroying certain cloned identities that can lead to remote code execution

R. Elliott Childre reports: The clone method of the identificationt class doesn't correctly handle identities that have an empty but non-NULL encoding. Both objects will point to the same location, resulting in a double-free once the second object is destroyed. This can lead to a crash and could...