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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2023-38711) ELSA-2023-7052: libreswan security update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2023-38711) ELSA-2023-7052: libreswan security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/25/2023
Created
11/24/2023
Added
11/22/2023
Modified
12/14/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in Libreswan before 4.12. When an IKEv1 Quick Mode connection configured with ID_IPV4_ADDR or ID_IPV6_ADDR receives an IDcr payload with ID_FQDN, a NULL pointer dereference causes a crash and restart of the pluto daemon. NOTE: the earliest affected version is 4.6.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libreswan

References

  • ELSA-2023-7052
  • CVE-2023-38711

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