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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:29:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE id request: strongswan


On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Nico Golde wrote:

> - Applying their fuzzing tool, the Orange Labs vulnerability research team
>   found another two DoS vulnerabilities, one in the rather old ASN.1
>   parser of Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs) and a second one in the
>   conversion of ASN.1 UTCTIME and GENERALIZEDTIME strings to a time_t
>   value. Malformed X.509 certificate RDNs or timestamps can cause the
>   pluto IKE daemon to crash and restart.

Use CVE-2009-2185.

Note that this has already been processed internally by CVE, but the
change hasn't been committed yet.  The CVE will show up live sometime
later today.

- Steve

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