CVE-2018-5388
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-05-31 00:00
Modified
2024-08-05 05:33
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cret@cert.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00077.html
cret@cert.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00001.html
cret@cert.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00047.html
cret@cert.orghttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172833/strongSwan-VPN-Charon-Server-Buffer-Overflow.html
cret@cert.orghttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/338343Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
cret@cert.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104263Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cret@cert.orghttps://git.strongswan.org/?p=strongswan.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0acd1ab4
cret@cert.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16Third Party Advisory
cret@cert.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3771-1/Third Party Advisory
cret@cert.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4229Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00077.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00001.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00047.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172833/strongSwan-VPN-Charon-Server-Buffer-Overflow.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/338343Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104263Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.strongswan.org/?p=strongswan.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0acd1ab4
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3771-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4229Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
strongSwan strongSwan Version: 5.6.3   < 5.6.3
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