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SUSE: CVE-2018-5388: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-5388: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/31/2018
Created
12/05/2019
Added
12/03/2019
Modified
10/22/2021

Description

In stroke_socket.c in strongSwan before 5.6.3, a missing packet length check could allow a buffer underflow, which may lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service while reading from the socket.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-strongswan
  • suse-upgrade-strongswan-doc
  • suse-upgrade-strongswan-hmac
  • suse-upgrade-strongswan-ipsec
  • suse-upgrade-strongswan-libs0
  • suse-upgrade-strongswan-mysql
  • suse-upgrade-strongswan-nm
  • suse-upgrade-strongswan-sqlite

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