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Medium ALAS2023-2026-3377 1 CVE

Moderate: libreswan security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Nov 9, 2026 · Updated Nov 9, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 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 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 libreswan 0:4.12-3.amzn2023.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2023 libreswan-debuginfo 0:4.12-3.amzn2023.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2023 libreswan-debugsource 0:4.12-3.amzn2023.0.5

Vulnerabilities 1

References

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