CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-38712
6.5 MEDIUM
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- 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 3.x and 4.x before 4.12. When an IKEv1 ISAKMP SA Informational Exchange packet contains a Delete/Notify payload followed by further Notifies that act on the ISAKMP SA, such as a duplicated Delete/Notify message, a NULL pointer dereference on the deleted state causes the pluto daemon to crash and restart.
Affected configurations
• libreswan libreswan (>= 3.0 < 4.0)
• libreswan libreswan (>= 4.0 < 4.12)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://github.com/libreswan/libreswan/tags Third Party Advisory
- https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2023-38712/ Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libreswan/libreswan/tags Third Party Advisory
- https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2023-38712/ Third Party Advisory