Debian Security Advisory
DSA-4684-1 libreswan -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 13 May 2020
- Affected Packages:
- libreswan
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 960458.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-1763. - More information:
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Stephan Zeisberg discovered that the libreswan IPsec implementation could be forced into a crash/restart via a malformed IKEv1 Informational Exchange packet, resulting in denial of service.
For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 3.27-6+deb10u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libreswan packages.
For the detailed security status of libreswan please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libreswan