CVE-2009-0790

openswan: ISAKMP DPD remote DoS

Published Apr 1, 2009 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 3.2% KEV · Not listed
Description
The pluto IKE daemon in Openswan and Strongswan IPsec 2.6 before 2.6.21 and 2.4 before 2.4.14, and Strongswan 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 2.8 before 2.8.9, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash and restart) via a crafted (1) R_U_THERE or (2) R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection (DPD) IPsec IKE Notification message that triggers a NULL pointer dereference related to inconsistent ISAKMP state and the lack of a phase2 state association in DPD.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1759-1 New strongswan packages fix denial of service
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1760-1 New openswan packages fix denial of service
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 4:48 AM
Reserved
Mar 4, 2009, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Apr 1, 2009, 10:30 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:05 PM
Severity
Important
Public date
Mar 30, 2009, 12:00 AM