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AA-2009.0134 -- [Linux] -- strongSwan: Denial of Service
Date: 09 June 2009
References: ESB-2009.1370

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AA-2009.0134                  AUSCERT Advisory

                                  [Linux]
                       strongSwan: Denial of Service
                                9 June 2009
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        AusCERT Advisory Summary
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Product:              strongSwan
Operating System:     Linux variants
Impact:               Denial of Service
Access:               Remote/Unauthenticated
CVE Names:            CVE-2009-1957 CVE-2009-1958
Member content until: Wednesday, July 01 2009

Revision History:     June 9 2009: Added CVE Reference
                      June 3 2009: Initial Release

OVERVIEW:

       Two denial of service vulnerabilities have been reported in
       strongSwan due to an error in the IKEv2 charon daemon.


IMPACT:

       The vendor has provided the following details:

       Invalid ike state:

       "Fixes a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where receiving a malformed 
       IKE_SA_INIT request leaves an incomplete state which causes a crash 
       of the IKEv2 charon while dereferencing a NULL pointer if a 
       subsequent CREATE_CHILD_SA is received." [1]

       Swapped ts check:

       "Fixes a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where receiving a malformed 
       IKE_AUTH request with either a missing TSi or TSr traffic selector 
       payload causes a crash of the IKEv2 charon while dereferencing a NULL 
       pointer because the NULL pointer checks of TSi and TSr before 
       destruction were erroneously swapped." [2]


MITIGATION:

       The vendor has made patches available for download on their website.
       [3, 4]


REFERENCES:

       [1] invalid ike state readme
           http://download.strongswan.org/patches/03_invalid_ike_state_patch/strongswan-4.x.x_invalid_ike_state.readme

       [2] swapped ts check readme
           http://download.strongswan.org/patches/04_swapped_ts_check_patch/strongswan-4.x.x._swapped_ts_check.readme

       [3] invalid ike state patch
           http://download.strongswan.org/patches/03_invalid_ike_state_patch/

       [4] swapped ts check patch
           http://download.strongswan.org/patches/04_swapped_ts_check_patch/

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