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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201309-02">
  <title>strongSwan: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in strongSwan, possibly
    allowing remote attackers to authenticate as other users or cause a Denial
    of Service condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">strongswan</product>
  <announced>2013-09-01</announced>
  <revised count="1">2013-09-01</revised>
  <bug>468504</bug>
  <bug>479396</bug>
  <bug>483202</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/strongswan" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">5.1.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">5.1.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>strongSwan is an IPSec implementation for Linux.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in strongSwan. Please
      review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="low">
    <p>A remote attacker could use ECDSA to authenticate as another user with
      an invalid signature. Additionally, a remote attacker could send a
      specially crafted request, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All strongSwan users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/strongswan-5.1.0"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-2054">CVE-2013-2054</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-2944">CVE-2013-2944</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5018">CVE-2013-5018</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2013-08-23T13:39:48Z">
    creffett
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2013-09-01T23:59:13Z">
    creffett
  </metadata>
</glsa>