Resource Management Errors Affecting strongswan package, versions [,4.3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
12.94% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-STRONGSWAN-2371977
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Jun 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Jun 2009

CVE-2009-1957  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade strongswan to version 4.3.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors charon/sa/ike_sa.c in the charon daemon in strongSWAN before 4.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via an invalid IKE_SA_INIT request that triggers "an incomplete state," followed by a CREATE_CHILD_SA request.

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