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Debian: CVE-2019-12312: libreswan -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2019-12312: libreswan -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/24/2019
Created
07/31/2024
Added
07/30/2024
Modified
07/30/2024

Description

In Libreswan 3.27 an assertion failure can lead to a pluto IKE daemon restart. An attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference by initiating an IKEv2 IKE_SA_INIT exchange, followed by a bogus INFORMATIONAL exchange instead of the normallly expected IKE_AUTH exchange. This affects send_v2N_spi_response_from_state() in programs/pluto/ikev2_send.c that will then trigger a NULL pointer dereference leading to a restart of libreswan.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-libreswan

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