vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2024-2357: libreswan -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 11, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The Libreswan Project was notified of an issue causing libreswan to restart under some IKEv2 retransmit scenarios when a connection is configured to use PreSharedKeys (authby=secret) and the connection cannot find a matching configured secret. When such a connection is automatically added on startup using the auto= keyword, it can cause repeated crashes leading to a Denial of Service.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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