vulnerability
Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2023-38712: libreswan: Invalid IKEv1 repeat IKE SA delete causes crash and restart
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Aug 25, 2023 | Jan 10, 2025 | Mar 30, 2026 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 25, 2023
Added
Jan 10, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026
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
linuxrpm-upgrade-libreswan
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