From 919449a3f1f9218c18d6e8bda936a03768b98510 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Brunner Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:15:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: Added info about CVE-2014-9221 --- NEWS | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f757dd48d..1bce48d69 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,14 @@ strongswan-5.2.2 ---------------- +- Fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability triggered by an IKEv2 Key Exchange + payload that contains the Diffie-Hellman group 1025. This identifier was + used internally for DH groups with custom generator and prime. Because + these arguments are missing when creating DH objects based on the KE payload + an invalid pointer dereference occurred. This allowed an attacker to crash + the IKE daemon with a single IKE_SA_INIT message containing such a KE + payload. The vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2014-9221. + - The left/rightid options in ipsec.conf, or any other identity in strongSwan, now accept prefixes to enforce an explicit type, such as email: or fqdn:. Note that no conversion is done for the remaining string, refer to