From 64f7fd92c07ca500095238367b457a12e0495a3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Brunner Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 15:52:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: Add info about CVE-2018-10811 --- NEWS | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 18f28b81c..c136008b0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,11 @@ strongswan-5.6.3 ---------------- -- Fixes a vulnerability in the stroke plugin, which did not check the received +- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the IKEv2 key derivation if the openssl plugin is + used in FIPS mode and HMAC-MD5 is negotiated as PRF. + This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-10811. + +- Fixed a vulnerability in the stroke plugin, which did not check the received length before reading a message from the socket. Unless a group is configured, root privileges are required to access that socket, so in the default configuration this shouldn't be an issue.