CVE-2015-3240 — Reachable Assertion in Libreswan

CWE-189CWE-617 — Reachable Assertion8 documents6 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.2%
top 21.04%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
LibreswanDebian Libreswan
Timeline
PublishedNov 9
Latest updateMay 17

Description

The pluto IKE daemon in libreswan before 3.15 and Openswan before 2.6.45, when built with NSS, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon restart) via a zero DH g^x value in a KE payload in a IKE packet.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages2 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-m56r-f6p2-qgw5: The pluto IKE daemon in libreswan before 3↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2015-3240: The pluto IKE daemon in libreswan before 3↗2015-11-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
openswan: denial of service via IKE daemon restart when receiving a bad DH gx value↗2015-08-25
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Debian
CVE-2015-3240: libreswan - The pluto IKE daemon in libreswan before 3.15 and Openswan before 2.6.45, when b...↗2015
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-3240 libreswan: openswan: denial of service via IKE daemon restart when receiving a bad DH gx by peer [fedora-all]↗2015-08-25
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-3240 libreswan: openswan: denial of service via IKE daemon restart when receiving a bad DH gx by peer [epel-all]↗2015-08-25
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-3240 libreswan / openswan: denial of service via IKE daemon restart when receiving a bad DH gx value↗2015-06-16
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