strongSwan

h1. Security and Functional Flaw Reporting

h2. Security Flaws

h3. Reporting

   * Please email any security-relevant flaw to the special mail account *security@strongswan.org*. Whenever possible encrypt your posting using the "PGP key":http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=security%40strongswan.org for the *security@strongswan.org* account.

h3. Severity Classification

 * *Severe Security Flaw*

   * Allows remote access to the VPN with improper, missing, or invalid credentials

   * Allows local escalation of privileges on the server

   * Plain text traffic on the secure interface

   * Key generation and crypto flaws that reduce the difficulty in decrypting secure traffic

 * *Medium Security Flaw*

   * Remotely crashing the strongSwan daemon

* *Low Security Flaw*

   * All other minor issues not directly compromising security or availability of the strongSwan daemon or the host the daemon is running on

h3. Action

 * For *high* and *medium* severity vulnerabilities we are going to apply for a "CVE Identifier":http://cve.mitre.org/cve/identifiers/ first. Next we notify all known strongSwan customers and the major Linux distributions, giving them a time of about three weeks to patch their software release. On a predetermined date we officially issue an advisory and a patch for the vulnerability and usually a new stable strongSwan release containing the security fix. Also the CVE entry will be published.

 * Minor vulnerabilities  of *low* severity usually will be fixed immediately and the corresponding patch will be posted on the strongSwan mailing list.

h3. Reported and Fixed Security Flaws

 * Here is the list of all reported strongSwan high and medium security flaws registered in the "CVE database":http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search-results?query=strongswan which were fixed by the following "security patches":http://download.strongswan.org/security/.

h2. Functional Flaws

 * Please report all non-security-related flaws and bugs by opening a "new issue":http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/issues/new in our wiki. If you don't have a user account yet, please "register":http://wiki.strongswan.org/account/register first.

 * Our Redmine Tracker classifies user issues into the following three categories:

   * *Issue*:  Please choose this generic category if you are not sure whether your problem is caused by a strongSwan misconfiguration, an interoperability problem with third party VPN software or an actual bug in the strongSwan code. We are going to reclassify your report after a first analysis.

   * *Feature*:  Please choose this category for requesting new features that we might implement in future versions of the strongSwan software.

   * *Bug*:  Please post under this category only if you are quite sure that you identified a bug in the strongSwan code, e.g. if the charon daemon crashes which it shouldn't. Of course it is helpful if you can already pinpoint the code file where you suspect the bug or in the case of a crash to provide a backtrack analysis of the core dump. User patches fixing flaws are always welcome.