Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-587
Advisory Release Date: 2024-04-10 22:17 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-04-15 12:00 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
The Libreswan Project was notified of an issue causing libreswan to restart under some IKEv2 retransmit scenarios when a connection is configured to use PreSharedKeys (authby=secret) and the connection cannot find a matching configured secret. When such a connection is automatically added on startup using the auto= keyword, it can cause repeated crashes leading to a Denial of Service. (CVE-2024-2357)
Affected Packages:
libreswan
Issue Correction:
Run dnf update libreswan --releasever 2023.4.20240416 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
libreswan-debuginfo-4.12-3.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
libreswan-4.12-3.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
libreswan-debugsource-4.12-3.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
src:
libreswan-4.12-3.amzn2023.0.1.src
x86_64:
libreswan-debuginfo-4.12-3.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
libreswan-4.12-3.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
libreswan-debugsource-4.12-3.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64