CVE-2009-2661

Published Aug 4, 2009 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 1.6% KEV · Not listed
Description
The asn1_length function in strongSwan 2.8 before 2.8.11, 4.2 before 4.2.17, and 4.3 before 4.3.3 does not properly handle X.509 certificates with crafted Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs), which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pluto IKE daemon crash) via malformed ASN.1 data. NOTE: this is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-2185.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1899-1 New strongswan packages fix denial of service
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-2654 The asn1_length function in strongSwan 2.8 before 2.8.11, 4.2 before 4.2.17, and 4.3 before 4.3.3 does not properly handle X.509 certificates with crafted Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs), which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pluto IKE daemon crash) via malformed ASN.1 data. NOTE: this is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-2185.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 5:59 AM
Reserved
Aug 4, 2009, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 4, 2009, 4:30 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:09 PM