Bug 1327957 – CVE-2016-3071 libreswan: DoS when receiving an IKE transforn containing AES_XCBC

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Bug 1327957 - (CVE-2016-3071) CVE-2016-3071 libreswan: DoS when receiving an IKE transforn containing AES_XCBC

Summary:	CVE-2016-3071 libreswan: DoS when receiving an IKE transforn containing AES_XCBC

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

Aliases:	CVE-2016-3071

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

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1327958
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Reported:	2016-04-18 03:09 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2016-04-19 04:29 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	libreswan 3.17
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Last Closed:	2016-04-19 04:29:20 EDT
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-04-18 03:09:12 EDT

A security vulnerability was introduced in libreswan 3.16. The pluto IKE daemon would restart when receiving an IKE transform containg AES_XCBC.

External references:

https://lists.libreswan.org/pipermail/swan-announce/2016/000019.html

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-04-18 03:09:35 EDT

Created libreswan tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1327958]

Comment 2 Paul Wouters 2016-04-18 11:53:09 EDT

3.17-1 packages for fedora were already pushed and are in stable

Comment 3 Andrej Nemec 2016-04-19 04:29:20 EDT

(In reply to Paul Wouters from comment #2)
> 3.17-1 packages for fedora were already pushed and are in stable

Thanks, this is now fixed in fedora.

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