Bug 1585966 – CVE-2018-10811 strongswan: Missing initialization of a variable in IKEv2 key derivation allows denial of service

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Bug 1585966 - (CVE-2018-10811) CVE-2018-10811 strongswan: Missing initialization of a variable in IKEv2 key derivation allows denial of service

Summary:	CVE-2018-10811 strongswan: Missing initialization of a variable in IKEv2 key ...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2018-10811

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

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Depends On:	1585968 1585969
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Reported:	2018-06-05 04:30 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2018-06-05 04:35 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description Adam Mariš 2018-06-05 04:30:52 EDT

A denial-of-service vulnerability in the IKEv2 key derivation if the openssl plugin is used in FIPS mode and HMAC-MD5 is negotiated as PRF was discovered. All strongSwan versions since 5.0.1 may be affected.

Upstream patches:

https://download.strongswan.org/security/CVE-2018-10811/

External References:

https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2018/05/28/strongswan-vulnerability-(cve-2018-10811).html

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2018-06-05 04:31:27 EDT

Created strongswan tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1585969]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1585968]

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2018-06-05 04:35:27 EDT

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of strongimcv as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 as they did not include support for IKE features.

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