NEWS: Add info about CVE-2017-9022/23

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Tobias Brunner 2017-05-26 18:05:48 +02:00 committed by Andreas Steffen
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strongswan-5.5.3
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- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the gmp plugin that was caused by insufficient
input validation when verifying RSA signatures. More specifically,
mpz_powm_sec() has two requirements regarding the passed exponent and modulus
that the plugin did not enforce, if these are not met the calculation will
result in a floating point exception that crashes the whole process.
This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-9022.
- Fixed a DoS vulnerability in the x509 plugin that was caused because the ASN.1
parser didn't handle ASN.1 CHOICE types properly, which could result in an
infinite loop when parsing X.509 extensions that use such types.
This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2017-9023.
- The behavior during IKEv2 CHILD_SA rekeying has been changed in order to avoid
traffic loss. The responder now only installs the new inbound SA and delays
installing the outbound SA until it receives the DELETE for the replaced