USN-2450-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9221)
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2015-01-05 13:19 – Updated: 2026-02-10 04:40 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
strongswan vulnerability
Details
Mike Daskalakis discovered that strongSwan incorrectly handled IKEv2 payloads that contained the Diffie-Hellman group 1025. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the IKE daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
References
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"details": "Mike Daskalakis discovered that strongSwan incorrectly handled IKEv2\npayloads that contained the Diffie-Hellman group 1025. A remote attacker\ncould use this issue to cause the IKE daemon to crash, resulting in a\ndenial of service.\n",
"id": "USN-2450-1",
"modified": "2026-02-10T04:40:51Z",
"published": "2015-01-05T13:19:04Z",
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