Mageia alert MGASA-2023-0089 (libreswan)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2023-0089: Updated libreswan packages fix security vulnerability
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Sat, 11 Mar 2023 20:01:45 +0100
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Article
MGASA-2023-0089 - Updated libreswan packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 11 Mar 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0089.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 8
CVE: CVE-2023-23009

Description:
A change in the libreswan 4.2 Traffic Selector parsing code introduced a
missing check that would reject palformed Traffic Selector payloads. As
such, in such case the code stumbles on to hit a double free, leading to a
crash and restart of the pluto daemon. No remote code execution.
(CVE-2023-23009)

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31636
- https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2023-23009/CVE-2023-23...
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-23009
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-2...

SRPMS:
- 8/core/libreswan-4.6-4.1.mga8