CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-5388
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-05-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-124, CWE-787
Description
In stroke_socket.c in strongSwan before 5.6.3, a missing packet length check could allow a buffer underflow, which may lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service while reading from the socket.
Affected configurations
• strongswan strongswan (< 5.6.3)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
Related
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00077.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00001.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00047.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172833/strongSwan-VPN-Charon-Server-Buffer-Overflow.html packetstormsecurity.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/338343 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104263 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://git.strongswan.org/?p=strongswan.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0acd1ab4 git.strongswan.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3771-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4229 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00077.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00001.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00047.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172833/strongSwan-VPN-Charon-Server-Buffer-Overflow.html packetstormsecurity.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/338343 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104263 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://git.strongswan.org/?p=strongswan.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0acd1ab4 git.strongswan.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3771-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4229 Third Party Advisory