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Red Hat: CVE-2022-23094: Malicious IKEv1 packet can cause libreswan to restart (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2022-23094: Malicious IKEv1 packet can cause libreswan to restart (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/15/2022
Created
01/22/2022
Added
01/21/2022
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

Libreswan 4.2 through 4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted IKEv1 packet because pluto/ikev1.c wrongly expects that a state object exists. This is fixed in 4.6.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-libreswan
  • redhat-upgrade-libreswan-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-libreswan-debugsource

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