Advisories » MGASA-2020-0215

Updated libreswan packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 15 May 2020
Modification date: 15 May 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-1763

Description

Updated libreswan packages fix security vulnerability:

An out-of-bounds buffer read flaw was found in the pluto daemon of
libreswan. An unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash
libreswan by sending specially-crafted IKEv1 Informational Exchange
packets. The daemon respawns after the crash (CVE-2020-1763).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26613
• https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2020-1763/CVE-2020-1763.txt
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2070
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1763

SRPMS

7/core

• libreswan-3.32-1.mga7