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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-2185: Openswan: Denial of service

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-2185: Openswan: Denial of service

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/24/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
05/28/2021

Description

The ASN.1 parser (pluto/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1_parser.c) in (a) strongSwan 2.8 before 2.8.10, 4.2 before 4.2.16, and 4.3 before 4.3.2; and (b) openSwan 2.6 before 2.6.22 and 2.4 before 2.4.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pluto IKE daemon crash) via an X.509 certificate with (1) crafted Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs), (2) a crafted UTCTIME string, or (3) a crafted GENERALIZEDTIME string.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-openswan

References

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