Bug 1232320 – CVE-2015-3240 libreswan / openswan: denial of service via IKE daemon restart when receiving a bad DH gx value

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Bug 1232320 - (CVE-2015-3240) CVE-2015-3240 libreswan / openswan: denial of service via IKE daemon restart when receiving a bad DH gx value

Summary:	CVE-2015-3240 libreswan / openswan: denial of service via IKE daemon restart ...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2015-3240

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1256802 1256803 1259206 1259207 1259208 1259209
Blocks:	1232321
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Reported:	2015-06-16 09:25 EDT by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified:	2018-01-21 06:34 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	A flaw was discovered in the way Libreswan's IKE daemon processed IKE KE payloads. A remote attacker could send specially crafted IKE payload with a KE payload of g^x=0 that, when processed, would lead to a denial of service (daemon crash).
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Last Closed:	2015-11-20 02:15:14 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:1979	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: libreswan security and enhancement update	2015-11-04 08:37:20 EST

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Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-06-16 09:25:25 EDT

Paul Wouters of Red Hat reported a denial of service issue in libreswan/openswan:

If the peer sends us a DH gx value of 0, openswan/libreswan passes it to the NSS library, which returns NULL because it cannot perform DH with 0, which hits a passert() in the swan code. An attacker can keep connecting to the service and perform the bad DH, causing a denial of service.

Comment 3 Paul Wouters 2015-08-25 00:51:18 EDT

This issue is now public: https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2015-3240/

Comment 4 Adam Mariš 2015-08-25 09:22:23 EDT

Created libreswan tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1256803]

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2015-08-26 13:25:10 EDT

libreswan-3.15-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.\nIf you want to test the update, you can install it with \n su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update libreswan'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14179

Comment 6 Paul Wouters 2015-08-27 09:54:18 EDT

note that using libreswan-3,15 you can test sending a bad g^x by running:

ipsec start
ipsec auto --add connname
ipsec whack --debug-all --impair-send-zero-gx
ipsec auto --up connname

Comment 9 Martin Prpič 2015-11-03 02:44:26 EST

Acknowledgement:

This issue was discovered by Paul Wouters of Red Hat.

Comment 10 Tomas Hoger 2015-11-03 07:04:22 EST

External References:

https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2015-3240/

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-04 03:37:41 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:1979 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1979.html

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