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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Rene Mayrhofer
  • Date: 2009-04-01 22:17:52 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.1.8 upstream)
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20090401221752-eozrk0ctabblo94z
* New upstream release, which incorporates the fix. Removed dpatch for it.
  Closes: #521950: CVE-2009-0790: DoS
* New support for EAP RADIUS authentication, enabled for this package.

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The roadwarrior <b>carol</b> sets up a connection to gateway <b>moon</b>.
 
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At the outset the gateway authenticates itself to the client by sending
 
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an IKEv2 <b>RSA signature</b> accompanied by a certificate.
 
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<b>carol</b> then uses the <i>Extensible Authentication Protocol</i>
 
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in association with an  <i>MD5</i> challenge and response protocol
 
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(<b>EAP-MD5</b>) to authenticate against the gateway <b>moon</b>.
 
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The user password is kept in <b>ipsec.secrets</b> on the client <b>carol</b>
 
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and the gateway forwards all EAP messages to the RADIUS server <b>alice</b>.