vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2024-2357: ELSA-2024-1998: libreswan security update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
03/11/2024
Added
04/24/2024
Modified
12/01/2024

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.
A flaw was found in Libreswan. This issue causes 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 automatically added on startup using the auto= keyword, it can cause repeated crashes, leading to a denial of service.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-libreswan
Title
NEW

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