CVE-2014-2891

Published May 7, 2014

Last updated a year ago

Overview

Description
strongSwan before 5.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and IKE daemon crash) via a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

Evaluator

Comment
-
Impact
Per: http://www.strongswan.org/blog/2014/05/05/strongswan-denial-of-service-vulnerability-%28cve-2014-2891%29.html "Based on a crash report from one of our users we found that strongSwan versions before 5.1.2 are susceptible to a DoS vulnerability. Affected are strongSwan versions 4.3.3 and newer, up to 5.1.1. The latest release (5.1.3) is not affected."
Solution
Per: http://www.strongswan.org/blog/2014/05/05/strongswan-denial-of-service-vulnerability-%28cve-2014-2891%29.html "Based on a crash report from one of our users we found that strongSwan versions before 5.1.2 are susceptible to a DoS vulnerability. Affected are strongSwan versions 4.3.3 and newer, up to 5.1.1. The latest release (5.1.3) is not affected."

Configurations