CVE-2026-12413 (GCVE-0-2026-12413)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-02 21:19 – Updated: 2026-07-02 21:19
VLAI
Title
IKEv2 Denial of Service via malformed fragmentation
Summary
An invalidly formatted IKEv2 fragment causes the Libreswan pluto daemon to crash and restart. Continued exploitation would cause a denial of service. The function reassemble_v2_incoming_fragments() would ignore unknown outer payloads but still store these in a fixed size array msg_digest.digest[PAYLIMIT]. An off-by-one error in the assertion PASSERT(logger, md->digest_roof < elemsof(md->digest)) causes the daemon to abort. No remote code execution is possible. Any configuration that allows IKEv2 connections that do not set fragmentation=no are vulnerable. IKEv1 is not affected.
CWE
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
The Libreswan Project libreswan Affected: 4.6 , ≤ 5.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.3.1 (semver)
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Credits
Hu Xinyao
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