Resource Management Errors Affecting strongswan package, versions [,4.2.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
3.44% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-STRONGSWAN-2371954
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Oct 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Oct 2008

CVE-2008-4551  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade strongswan to version 4.2.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors 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).

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