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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-38712: NULL Pointer Dereference

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-38712: NULL Pointer Dereference

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/25/2023
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in Libreswan 3.x and 4.x before 4.12. When an IKEv1 ISAKMP SA Informational Exchange packet contains a Delete/Notify payload followed by further Notifies that act on the ISAKMP SA, such as a duplicated Delete/Notify message, a NULL pointer dereference on the deleted state causes the pluto daemon to crash and restart.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libreswan

References

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