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Cent OS: CVE-2015-3240: CESA-2015:1979 (libreswan)

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Cent OS: CVE-2015-3240: CESA-2015:1979 (libreswan)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/09/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The pluto IKE daemon in libreswan before 3.15 and Openswan before 2.6.45, when built with NSS, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon restart) via a zero DH g^x value in a KE payload in a IKE packet.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-libreswan

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