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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2009-1957

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2009-1957

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/07/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

charon/sa/ike_sa.c in the charon daemon in strongSWAN before 4.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via an invalid IKE_SA_INIT request that triggers "an incomplete state," followed by a CREATE_CHILD_SA request.

Solution(s)

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

References

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