Bug 748961 (CVE-2011-4073)

Summary: CVE-2011-4073 openswan: use-after-free vulnerability leads to DoS
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: avagarwa, jrieden, security-response-team, sgrubb
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: openswan 2.6.37 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-11-02 22:08:43 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 748967, 748968, 748969, 748970    
Bug Blocks: 748965    
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openswan patch for cve-2011-4073 for 6.2, 6.1.z and 5.8 none

Description Vincent Danen 2011-10-25 17:41:50 UTC
A use-after-free flaw was reported in the cryptography support in Openswan Phase 2 negotiation.  This could be used by a remote authenticated attacker to crash Openswan.

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2011-10-25 20:17:40 UTC
Created attachment 530171 [details]
proposed upstream patch

Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2011-10-25 20:51:33 UTC
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Openswan project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Petar Tsankov, Mohammad Torabi Dashti and David Basin of the information security group at ETH Zurich as the original reporters.

Comment 11 Vincent Danen 2011-10-27 15:59:58 UTC
External References:

http://openswan.org/download/CVE-2011-4073/CVE-2011-4073.txt

Comment 12 Vincent Danen 2011-10-28 21:55:31 UTC
The upstream patch to correct this flaw:

http://www.openswan.org/download/CVE-2011-4073/openswan-2.x.x-CVE-2011-4073.patch

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2011-11-02 22:03:45 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2011:1422 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1422.html

Comment 14 Vincent Danen 2011-11-02 22:10:16 UTC
Fedora updates that fix this flaw:

openswan-2.6.33-3.fc14
openswan-2.6.37-1.fc15
openswan-2.6.37-1.fc16

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2011-12-10 19:48:33 UTC
openswan-2.6.37-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2011-12-10 19:50:40 UTC
openswan-2.6.33-3.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2011-12-10 19:56:42 UTC
openswan-2.6.37-1.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.