Executive Summary

Summary
Title strongswan security update
Informations
Name DSA-4305 First vendor Publication 2018-09-24
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2018-09-24
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Sze Yiu Chau and his team from Purdue University and The University of Iowa found several issues in the gmp plugin for strongSwan, an IKE/IPsec suite.

Problems in the parsing and verification of RSA signatures could lead to a Bleichenbacher-style low-exponent signature forgery in certificates and during IKE authentication.

While the gmp plugin doesn't allow arbitrary data after the ASN.1 structure (the original Bleichenbacher attack), the ASN.1 parser is not strict enough and allows data in specific fields inside the ASN.1 structure.

Only installations using the gmp plugin are affected (on Debian OpenSSL plugin has priority over GMP one for RSA operations), and only when using keys and certificates (including ones from CAs) using keys with an exponent e = 3, which is usually rare in practice.

CVE-2018-16151

The OID parser in the ASN.1 code in gmp allows any number of random bytes after a valid OID.

CVE-2018-16152

The algorithmIdentifier parser in the ASN.1 code in gmp doesn't enforce a NULL value for the optional parameter which is not used with any PKCS#1 algorithm.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 5.5.1-4+deb9u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your strongswan packages.

For the detailed security status of strongswan please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/strongswan

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4305

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 132
Os 3
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-61df554bb1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-a0d22c2a21.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-11-27 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201811-16.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-9caa6528d2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-10-03 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4309.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-27 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1522.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-25 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4305.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-12-19 21:21:59
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2018-11-27 17:22:29
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2018-09-27 17:21:32
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2018-09-24 17:19:53
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