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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-4551

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-4551

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/14/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/12/2013
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

strongSwan 4.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an IKE_SA_INIT message with a large number of NULL values in a Key Exchange payload, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference for the return value of the mpz_export function in the GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP).

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-strongswan
  • suse-upgrade-strongswan-doc

References

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