Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : strongSwan vulnerabilities (USN-3771-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3771-1 advisory. It was discovered that strongSwan incorrectly handled IKEv2 key derivation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to...

USN-3771-1 strongswan vulnerabilities

It was discovered that strongSwan incorrectly handled IKEv2 key derivation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause strongSwan to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2018-10811 Sze Yiu Chau discovered that strongSwan incorrectly handled parsing OIDs in the gmp plugin. A...

USN-3771-1: strongSwan vulnerabilities

It was discovered that strongSwan incorrectly handled IKEv2 key derivation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause strongSwan to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2018-10811 Sze Yiu Chau discovered that strongSwan incorrectly handled parsing OIDs in the gmp plugin. A...

strongswan -- Fix Denial-of-Service Vulnerability strongSwan (CVE-2018-10811, CVE-2018-5388)

strongSwan security team reports: A denial-of-service vulnerability in the IKEv2 key derivation was fixed if the openssl plugin is used in FIPS mode and HMAC-MD5 is negotiated as PRF which is not FIPS-compliant. So this should only affect very specific setups, but in such configurations all...