PublicDateAtUSN: 2017-08-18
Candidate: CVE-2017-11185
PublicDate: 2017-08-18 17:29:00 UTC
References: 
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11185
 https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2017/08/14/strongswan-vulnerability-(cve-2017-11185).html
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3397-1
Description:
 The gmp plugin in strongSwan before 5.6.0 allows remote attackers to cause
 a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a
 crafted RSA signature.
Ubuntu-Description: 
Notes:
 sdeziel> Remote code execution is not possible.
Bugs: 
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to: leosilva 
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [7.5 HIGH]

Patches_strongswan:
 upstream: https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/repository/revisions/ef5c37fcdf47273feea320091598135688df4ef7
 upstream: https://download.strongswan.org/security/CVE-2017-11185/strongswan-4.4.0-5.5.3_gmp_mpz_export.patch
upstream_strongswan: released (5.6.0)
precise/esm_strongswan: DNE
trusty_strongswan: released (5.1.2-0ubuntu2.7)
trusty/esm_strongswan: released (5.1.2-0ubuntu2.7)
vivid/ubuntu-core_strongswan: DNE
xenial_strongswan: released (5.3.5-1ubuntu3.4)
esm-infra/xenial_strongswan: released (5.3.5-1ubuntu3.4)
zesty_strongswan: released (5.5.1-1ubuntu3.2)
devel_strongswan: released (5.5.1-4ubuntu2)