CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-38711

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2023-08-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-08-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

An issue was discovered in Libreswan before 4.12. When an IKEv1 Quick Mode connection configured with ID_IPV4_ADDR or ID_IPV6_ADDR receives an IDcr payload with ID_FQDN, a NULL pointer dereference causes a crash and restart of the pluto daemon. NOTE: the earliest affected version is 4.6.

Affected configurations

• libreswan libreswan (>= 4.6 < 4.12)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References