Advisories » MGASA-2023-0089

Updated libreswan packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 11 Mar 2023
Modification date: 11 Mar 2023
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2023-23009

Description

A change in the libreswan 4.2 Traffic Selector parsing code introduced a
missing check that would reject palformed Traffic Selector payloads. As
such, in such case the code stumbles on to hit a double free, leading to a
crash and restart of the pluto daemon. No remote code execution.
(CVE-2023-23009)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31636
• https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2023-23009/CVE-2023-23009.txt
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-23009
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-23009

SRPMS

8/core

• libreswan-4.6-4.1.mga8