We are happy to announce the release of strongSwan 5.9.5, which fixes a vulnerability in the EAP client, supports TPM 2.0 secure sessions, brings basic OpenSSL 3.0 support and comes with several other new features and fixes.
A vulnerability in the EAP client implementation was fixed that was caused by by incorrectly handling early EAP-Success messages. It may allow to bypass the client and in some scenarios even the server authentication, or could lead to a denial-of-service attack. All strongSwan versions since 4.2.1 may be affected.
More information is provided in a separate blog entry.
Using the trusted RSA or ECC Endorsement Key of the TPM 2.0, libtpmtss may now establish a secure session via RSA OAEP public key encryption or an ephemeral ECDH key exchange, respectively. The session allows HMAC-based authenticated communication with the TPM 2.0 and the exchanged parameters can be encrypted with AES-CFB where necessary to guarantee confidentiality (e.g. when using the TPM 2.0 as RNG).
Basic support for OpenSSL 3.0 has been added to the openssl plugin, in particular, the new load_legacy option (enabled by default) allows loading the "legacy" provider for algorithms like MD4 and DES (both required for EAP-MSCHAPv2), and the existing fips_mode option allows explicitly loading the "fips" provider e.g. if it's not activated in OpenSSL's fipsmodule.cnf. All loaded providers are logged when the plugin is initialized.
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