From: Tobias Brunner Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 13:52:06 +0000 (+0200) Subject: NEWS: Add info about CVE-2018-10811 X-Git-Tag: 5.6.3~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=64f7fd92c07ca500095238367b457a12e0495a3e;p=thirdparty%2Fstrongswan.git NEWS: Add info about CVE-2018-10811 --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 18f28b81c0..c136008b01 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,11 @@ strongswan-5.6.3 ---------------- -- Fixes a vulnerability in the stroke plugin, which did not check the received +- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the IKEv2 key derivation if the openssl plugin is + used in FIPS mode and HMAC-MD5 is negotiated as PRF. + This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2018-10811. + +- Fixed a vulnerability in the stroke plugin, which did not check the received length before reading a message from the socket. Unless a group is configured, root privileges are required to access that socket, so in the default configuration this shouldn't be an issue.