CVE-2015-3240

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

The pluto IKE daemon in libreswan before 3.15 and Openswan before 2.6.45, when built with NSS, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon restart) via a zero DH g^x value in a KE payload in a IKE packet.

The pluto IKE daemon in libreswan before 3.15 and Openswan before 2.6.45, when built with NSS, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon restart) via a zero DH g^x value in a KE payload in a IKE packet.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-11-09 16:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-03 03:09:00

Affected Software

libreswan libreswan 3.14

3.14

References

RHSA-2015:1979

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

77536

1033418

https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2015-3240/CVE-2015-3240.txt

Vendor Advisory

[Openswan Users] 20150827 Openswan 2.6.45 released

Vendor Advisory

GLSA-201603-13

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