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<glsa id="202507-04">
    <title>strongSwan: Buffer Overflow</title>
    <synopsis>A buffer overflow has been discovered in strongSwan, which can lead to remote code execution.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">strongswan</product>
    <announced>2025-07-08</announced>
    <revised count="1">2025-07-08</revised>
    <bug>920105</bug>
    <access>remote</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="net-vpn/strongswan" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">5.9.13</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">5.9.13</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>strongSwan is an IPSec implementation for Linux.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in strongSwan. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="normal">
        <p>A vulnerability in charon-tkm related to processing DH public values was discovered in strongSwan that can result in a buffer overflow and potentially remote code execution.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All strongSwan users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-vpn/strongswan-5.9.13"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-41913">CVE-2023-41913</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2025-07-08T22:25:45.837088Z">graaff</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2025-07-08T22:25:45.839235Z">sam</metadata>
</glsa>