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Severity
5
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Openswan 2.6.39 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and IKE daemon restart) via IKEv2 packets that lack expected payloads.

First published (updated )
Severity
3.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Openswan 2.2.x does not properly restrict permissions for (1) /var/run/starter.pid, related to starter.c in the IPsec starter, and (2) /var/lock/subsys/ipsec, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes by writing a PID to a file, or possibly bypass disk quotas by writing arbitrary data to a file, as demonstrated by files with 0666 permissions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1784.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
OS Command Injection
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

programs/pluto/xauth.c in the client in Openswan 2.6.26 through 2.6.28 allows remote authenticated gateways to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the ciscobanner (aka serverbanner) field, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3308.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
OS Command Injection
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

programs/pluto/xauth.c in the client in Openswan 2.6.25 through 2.6.28 allows remote authenticated gateways to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in (1) ciscodnsinfo or (2) ciscodomaininfo data in a packet, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3302.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
Input Validation, Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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) RUTHERE or (2) RUTHEREACK 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.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.4
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The IPSEC livetest tool in Openswan 2.4.12 and earlier, and 2.6.x through 2.6.16, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the (1) ipseclive.conn and (2) ipsec.olts.remote.log temporary files. NOTE: in many distributions and the upstream version, this tool has been disabled.

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Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The Internet Key Exchange version 1 (IKEv1) implementation in Openswan 2 (openswan-2) before 2.4.4, and freeswan in SUSE LINUX 9.1 before 2.041.5.4-1.23, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via (1) a crafted packet using 3DES with an invalid key length, or (2) unspecified inputs when Aggressive Mode is enabled and the PSK is known, as demonstrated by the PROTOS ISAKMP Test Suite for IKEv1.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Stack-based buffer overflow in the getinternaladdresses function in the pluto application for Openswan 1.x before 1.0.9, and Openswan 2.x before 2.3.0, when compiled with XAUTH and PAM enabled, allows remote authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code.

First published (updated )

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