CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5391
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-06-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
libreswan before 3.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and pluto daemon restart).
Affected configurations
• libreswan libreswan (<= 3.17)
• fedoraproject fedora 23
• fedoraproject fedora 24
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1356183 Issue Tracking
- https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2016-5391/CVE-2016-5391.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/65R6OA5AY7K2UBQUDOLOS5Y3SCULQI6I/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UKMS7R4TG6LTAGEBOWVUXF6LAWQXLNXV/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1356183 Issue Tracking
- https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2016-5391/CVE-2016-5391.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/65R6OA5AY7K2UBQUDOLOS5Y3SCULQI6I/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UKMS7R4TG6LTAGEBOWVUXF6LAWQXLNXV/ lists.fedoraproject.org