CVE-2008-4551
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).
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2008-10-14
- Last modified
- 2024-08-07
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Affected products
References
- http://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES4.txt
- http://labs.mudynamics.com/advisories/MU-200809-01.txt
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31963
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31291
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020903
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2660
