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CVE-2009-0790

The pluto IKE daemon in Openswan and Strongswan IPsec 2.6 before 2.6.21 and 2.4 before 2.4.14, and Strongswan 4.2 before

The pluto IKE daemon in Openswan and Strongswan IPsec 2.6 before 2.6.21 and 2.4 before 2.4.14, and Strongswan 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 2.8 before 2.8.9, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash and restart) via a crafted (1) R_U_THERE or (2) R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection (DPD) IPsec IKE Notification message that triggers a NULL pointer dereference related to inconsistent ISAKMP state and the lack of a phase2 state association in DPD.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 0.10861

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EPSS ≥ 0.10 - elevated exploitation probability
EPSS percentile: top 6% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood

Sigma rules0 YARA rules0

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Weakness Classification

CWE-20Improper Input Validation

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Affected Products & Versions

2

strongswanall versions

xelerance openswanall versions

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Scoring & Timeline

5

MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com

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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Published to NVD01 Apr 2009 · 10:30 AM

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Vendor Advisories

2

suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10579-1

rhsaRHSA-2009:0402Important

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References & Sources

17

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES4.txtVendor Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/34472Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/34483Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/34494Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/34546Vendor Advisory

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http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1759Patch

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1760Patch

http://www.openswan.org/CVE-2009-0790/CVE-2009-0790.txtVendor Advisory

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0402.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502270/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34296Patch

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021949

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021950

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0886

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49523

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11171

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