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RHSA-2023:6549 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: libreswan security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · November 7, 2023

Updated · October 24, 2026

Topic

An update for libreswan is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Libreswan is an implementation of IPsec and IKE for Linux. IPsec is the Internet Protocol Security and uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks such as virtual private network (VPN).

Security Fix(es):

  • libreswan: Invalid IKEv2 REKEY proposal causes restart (CVE-2023-38710)

  • libreswan: Invalid IKEv1 Quick Mode ID causes restart (CVE-2023-38711)

  • libreswan: Invalid IKEv1 repeat IKE SA delete causes crash and restart (CVE-2023-38712)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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