vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2023-41913: strongSwan: Buffer Overflow

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 7, 2023
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

strongSwan before 5.9.12 has a buffer overflow and possible unauthenticated remote code execution via a DH public value that exceeds the internal buffer in charon-tkm's DH proxy. The earliest affected version is 5.3.0. An attack can occur via a crafted IKE_SA_INIT message.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-vpn-strongswan
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