Out-of-Bounds Affecting strongswan package, versions [,5.6.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.52% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-STRONGSWAN-2371968
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 May 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 May 2018

CVE-2018-5388  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade strongswan to version 5.6.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. In stroke_socket.c in strongSwan before 5.6.3, a missing packet length check could allow a buffer underflow, which may lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service while reading from the socket.

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