Bug 20527

Summary:	CVE-2009-2185 DoS vulnerability in the ASN.1 parser
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	Vladimir Lettiev <crux>
Component:	strongswan	Assignee:	Michael Shigorin <mike>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3	CC:	mike, oddity, week
Version:	unstable	Keywords:	security
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES42.txt

Description

Vladimir Lettiev 2009-06-21 23:07:24 MSD

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 and charon IKE daemons to crash and restart.

Fix availiable in the new version 4.2.16

Comment 1

Michael Shigorin 2009-06-23 20:10:50 MSD

arbeiten

Comment 2

Repository Robot 2009-06-24 13:48:06 MSD

strongswan-4.2.16-alt1 -> sisyphus:

* Tue Jun 23 2009 Michael Shigorin <mike@altlinux> 4.2.16-alt1

- 4.2.16 fixes DoS vulnerability in the ASN.1 parser;
  thanks crux@ for notification (closes: #20527)

Comment 3

Vladimir Lettiev 2009-06-25 09:27:01 MSD

closed