RHSA-2015:1979Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: libreswan security and enhancement update

Published
November 4, 2015
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2015-3240 →

📋 Description

CVE-2015-3240 — openswan: denial of service via IKE daemon restart when receiving a bad DH gx value

🎯 Affected products19

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • libreswan-0:3.15-5.ael7b_1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libreswan-0:3.15-5.ael7b_1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libreswan-0:3.15-5.el7_1.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libreswan-0:3.15-5.el7_1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libreswan-0:3.15-5.el7_1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • libreswan-0:3.15-5.el7_1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libreswan-0:3.15-5.el7_1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • libreswan-0:3.15-5.el7_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • libreswan-0:3.15-5.el7_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libreswan-0:3.15-5.el7_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • libreswan-debuginfo-0:3.15-5.ael7b_1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libreswan-debuginfo-0:3.15-5.el7_1.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libreswan-debuginfo-0:3.15-5.el7_1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libreswan-debuginfo-0:3.15-5.el7_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • libreswan-debuginfo-0:3.15-5.el7_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • libreswan-debuginfo-0:3.15-5.el7_1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)

✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (6)