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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-11185: strongswan Insufficient Input Validation in gmp Plugin

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-11185: strongswan Insufficient Input Validation in gmp Plugin

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/18/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/25/2017
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

The gmp plugin in strongSwan before 5.6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted RSA signature.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-strongswan

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