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AA-2009.0148 -- [Linux] -- strongSwan: Denial of Service
Date: 23 June 2009
References: ASB-2009.1042

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AA-2009.0148                  AUSCERT Advisory

                                  [Linux]
                       strongSwan: Denial of Service
                               23 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
Member content until: Tuesday, July 21 2009

OVERVIEW:

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


IMPACT:

       The vendor has provided the following details:

       asn1 rdn:

       "Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research 
       team found a Denial-of-Service vulnerability in the parsing of ASN.1 
       Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs). Malformed X.509 certificate RDNs 
       can cause the pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart.

       Apply to strongSwan releases 2.2.0 to 2.8.9." [1]

       asn1 time:

       "Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research 
       team found a Denial-of-Service vulnerability in the parsing of ASN.1 
       UTCTIME and GENERALIZEDTIME strings. Malformed X.509 certificate time 
       strings can cause the pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart.

       Apply to strongSwan releases 2.2.0 to 2.8.9." [2]


MITIGATION:

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


REFERENCES:

       [1] asn1 rdn
           http://download.strongswan.org/patches/05_asn1_rdn_patch/strongswan-2.x.x_asn1_rdn.readme

       [2] asn1 time
           http://download.strongswan.org/patches/06_asn1_time_patch/strongswan-2.x.x_asn1_time.readme

       [3] Index of /patches/05_asn1_rdn_patch
           http://download.strongswan.org/patches/05_asn1_rdn_patch/
 
       [4] Index of /patches/06_asn1_time_patch
           http://download.strongswan.org/patches/06_asn1_time_patch/

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