CVE-2008-4551 — Strongswan vulnerability

CWE-3994 documents4 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.2%
top 20.75%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
StrongswanDebian Strongswan
Timeline
PublishedOct 14
Latest updateMay 2

Description

strongSwan 4.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an IKE_SA_INIT message with a large number of NULL values in a Key Exchange payload, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference for the return value of the mpz_export function in the GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP).

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/strongswan< strongswan 4.2.4-5 (bookworm)
▶Debianstrongswan/strongswan< 4.2.4-5+3
▶NVDstrongswan/strongswan4.2.6+60

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-q36r-q874-43q3: strongSwan 4↗2022-05-02
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OSV
CVE-2008-4551: strongSwan 4↗2008-10-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2008-4551: strongswan - strongSwan 4.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of servic...↗2008
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