strongSwan could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Mike Daskalakis discovered that strongSwan incorrectly handled IKEv2 payloads that contained the Diffie-Hellman group 1025. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the IKE daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
5 January 2015
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
strongSwan could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Mike Daskalakis discovered that strongSwan incorrectly handled IKEv2 payloads that contained the Diffie-Hellman group 1025. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the IKE daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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