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A strongswan security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: strongswan-5.9.8-1.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-11bf2b2597
2022-10-26 17:27:29.983207
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Name : strongswan
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 5.9.8
Release : 1.fc36
URL :   http://www.strongswan.org/
Summary : An OpenSource IPsec-based VPN and TNC solution
Description :
The strongSwan IPsec implementation supports both the IKEv1 and IKEv2 key
exchange protocols in conjunction with the native NETKEY IPsec stack of the
Linux kernel.

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Update Information:

Resolves CVE-2022-40617
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Oct 16 2022 Arne Reiter - 5.9.8-1
- Resolves rhbz#2112274 strongswan-5.9.8 is available
- Patch1 removes CFLAGS -Wno-format which interferes with -Werror=format-security
- Add BuildRequire for autoconf and automake, now required for release
- Remove obsolete patches
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2132444 - CVE-2022-40617 strongswan: DoS via crafted certificates URI
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2132444
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-11bf2b2597' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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