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Medium ALAS2-2026-4068 1 CVE

Moderate: libreswan security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Nov 2, 2026 · Updated Nov 2, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-14957: In Libreswan before 5.3.2, when the operating system and Libreswan are running in FIPS mode and at least one CA certificate is loaded, a malformed X.509 certificate payload can cause the pluto daemon to abort on an assertion. In FIPS mode, add_decoded_cert() calls CERT_ExtractPublicKey() and asserts the result is non-NULL, but the function returns NULL when public key extraction fails (for example when the RSA exponent is 0), triggering the assertion failure. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can send such a corrupt CERT payload (over IKEv1 or IKEv2) before authentication completes, crashing and restarting the daemon; repeated sending causes a sustained denial of service. Remote code execution is not possible. Versions 3.0 through 5.3.1 are affected.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 libreswan 0:3.25-4.8.amzn2.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2 libreswan-debuginfo 0:3.25-4.8.amzn2.0.5

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-14957.html