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Tobias Brunner, 30.04.2013 14:38

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h1. Version 5.0.4
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* Fixed a security vulnerability in the _openssl_ plugin which was reported by
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  Kevin Wojtysiak. The vulnerability has been registered as "CVE-2013-2944":http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2013-2944.
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  Before the fix, if the _openssl_ plugin's ECDSA signature verification was used,
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  due to a misinterpretation of the error code returned by the OpenSSL
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  @ECDSA_verify()@ function, an empty or zeroed signature was accepted as a
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  legitimate one.
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  Refer to "our blog":http://www.strongswan.org/blog/2013/04/30/strongswan-5.0.4-released-(cve-2013-2944).html for details.
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* The handling of a couple of other non-security relevant OpenSSL return codes
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  was fixed as well.
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* The _tnc_ifmap_ plugin now publishes virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via its
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  TCG TNC IF-MAP 2.1 interface.
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* The _charon.initiator_only_ [[strongswan.conf]] option causes charon to ignore
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  IKE initiation requests.
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* The _openssl_ plugin can now use the _openssl-fips_ library.