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Version 4.3.2 » History » Version 1

Tobias Brunner, 01.09.2009 14:28
Changes for Version 4.3.2

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h1. Version 4.3.2
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* The new gcrypt plugin provides symmetric cipher, hasher, RNG, Diffie-Hellman
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  and RSA crypto primitives using the LGPL licensed GNU gcrypt library.
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* libstrongswan features an integrated crypto selftest framework for registered
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  algorithms. The test-vector plugin provides a first set of test vectors and
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  allows pluto and charon to rely on tested crypto algorithms.
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* pluto can now use all libstrongswan plugins with the exception of x509 and xcbc.
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  Thanks to the openssl plugin, the ECP Diffie-Hellman groups 19, 20, 21, 25, and
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  26 as well as ECDSA-256, ECDSA-384, and ECDSA-521 authentication can be used
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  with IKEv1.
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* Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team found
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  another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1 parser of Relative
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  Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME
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  and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t value.