musecurity wrote: strongSwan IKEv2 Denial-of-Service Vulnerability [MU-200809-01] September 18, 2008 http://labs.mudynamics.com/advisories.html Affected Products/Versions: strongswan 4.2.6 and other branches Product Overview: strongSwan is an Open Source IPsec-based VPN Solution for the Linux operating system. www.strongswan.org Vulnerability Details: An IKE_SA_INIT message with a Key Exchange payload containing a large number of NULL values can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon daemon. The problem is strongSwan dereferences a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Vendor Response / Solution: Fixed in strongSwan 4.2.7 and other branches. Available from www.strongswan.org/ History: September 16, 2008 - First contact with vendor September 17, 2008 - Vendor releases fix See also: http://wiki.strongswan.org/changeset/4345 Credit: This vulnerability was discovered by the Mu Dynamics research team.
4.2.7 in CVS.
It seems this does not affect our stable 2.8.0, since the code is not present there.
====================================================== Name: CVE-2008-4551 Status: Candidate URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4551 Reference: MISC:http://labs.mudynamics.com/advisories/MU-200809-01.txt Reference: CONFIRM:http://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES4.txt Reference: BID:31291 Reference: URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31291 Reference: FRSIRT:ADV-2008-2660 Reference: URL:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/2660 Reference: SECTRACK:1020903 Reference: URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020903 Reference: SECUNIA:31963 Reference: URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/31963 strongSwan 4.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an IKE_SA_INIT message with a large number of NULL values in a Key Exchange payload, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference for the return value of the mpz_export function in the GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP).
