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FreeBSD: VID-3F9B6943-BA58-11ED-BBBD-00E0670F2660 (CVE-2023-26463): strongSwan -- certificate verification vulnerability

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FreeBSD: VID-3F9B6943-BA58-11ED-BBBD-00E0670F2660 (CVE-2023-26463): strongSwan -- certificate verification vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/02/2023
Created
03/07/2023
Added
03/05/2023
Modified
04/27/2023

Description

Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.

From VID-3F9B6943-BA58-11ED-BBBD-00E0670F2660:

strongSwan reports:

A vulnerability related to certificate verification in TLS-based EAP methods

was discovered in strongSwan that results in a denial of service

but possibly even remote code execution. Versions 5.9.8 and 5.9.9

may be affected.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-strongswan

References

  • CVE-2023-26463

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