[Secure-testing-team] Bug#737406: openswan: CVE-2013-6466

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: openswan
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for openswan.

CVE-2013-6466[0]:
| Openswan 2.6.39 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial
| of service (NULL pointer dereference and IKE daemon restart) via IKEv2
| packets that lack expected payloads.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6466
    http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6466
[1] https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2013-6467/CVE-2013-6467.txt
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050277

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore