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Ubuntu: USN-3301-1 (CVE-2017-9022): strongSwan vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 30, 2017
Added
May 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The gmp plugin in strongSwan before 5.5.3 does not properly validate RSA public keys before calling mpz_powm_sec, which allows remote peers to cause a denial of service (floating point exception and process crash) via a crafted certificate.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libstrongswanubuntu-upgrade-strongswanubuntu-upgrade-strongswan-plugin-gmp
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