Bug 2176446

Summary:	CVE-2023-26463 strongswan: Authentication bypass in certificate verification in TLS-based EAP methods [epel-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	strongswan	Assignee:	Paul Wouters <paul.wouters>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	epel8	CC:	carl, davide, michel, mikhail.zabaluev, paul.wouters, pemensik
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2023-03-08 12:28:18 UTC

More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176444

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2023-03-08 12:28:20 UTC

Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# low, medium, high, urgent (required)
severity=high

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=2176444,2176446

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for [PUT CVEs HERE]

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

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Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 2 Carl George 🤠 2023-11-08 04:13:24 UTC

According to NVD, this bug was introduced in version 5.9.8 and fixed in version 5.9.10.  EPEL 7 has version 5.7.2 and was not affected.  EPEL 8 and EPEL 9 were updated to version 5.9.10 several months ago to resolve the CVE.

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2023-cf1c0e2ced
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2023-95d098a2d9