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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-1763: Out-of-bounds Read

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-1763: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/12/2020
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

An out-of-bounds buffer read flaw was found in the pluto daemon of libreswan from versions 3.27 till 3.31 where, an unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash libreswan by sending specially-crafted IKEv1 Informational Exchange packets. The daemon respawns after the crash.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libreswan

References

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