CVE-2014-2891 (GCVE-0-2014-2891)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-05-07 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:28
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/59864 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2922 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67212 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.strongswan.org/blog/2014/05/05/strongs… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2014-05-05 00:00
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