ALAS-2024-2596


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2596
Advisory Release Date: 2024-07-18 02:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-07-22 13:50 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

The Libreswan Project was notified of an issue causing libreswan to restart when using IKEv1 without specifying an esp= line. When the peer requests AES-GMAC, libreswan's default proposal handler causes an assertion failure and crashes and restarts. IKEv2 connections are not affected. (CVE-2024-3652)


Affected Packages:

libreswan


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update libreswan to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    libreswan-3.25-4.8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    libreswan-debuginfo-3.25-4.8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64

i686:
    libreswan-3.25-4.8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    libreswan-debuginfo-3.25-4.8.amzn2.0.3.i686

src:
    libreswan-3.25-4.8.amzn2.0.3.src

x86_64:
    libreswan-3.25-4.8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    libreswan-debuginfo-3.25-4.8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64