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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2909-1 strongswan -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

04 Feb 2022

Affected Packages:

strongswan

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-45079.

More information:

Zhuowei Zhang discovered a bug in the EAP authentication client code of strongSwan, an IKE/IPsec suite, that may allow to bypass the client and in some scenarios even the server authentication, or could lead to a denial-of-service attack.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 5.5.1-4+deb9u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your strongswan packages.

For the detailed security status of strongswan please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/strongswan

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