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CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-4551

Published: Oct 14, 2008 | Modified: Apr 09, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4551
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/399.html

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).

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
StrongswanStrongswan*4.2.6 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.0.0 (including)2.0.0 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.0.1 (including)2.0.1 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.0.2 (including)2.0.2 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.1.0 (including)2.1.0 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.1.1 (including)2.1.1 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.1.2 (including)2.1.2 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.1.3 (including)2.1.3 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.1.4 (including)2.1.4 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.1.5 (including)2.1.5 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.2.0 (including)2.2.0 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.2.1 (including)2.2.1 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.2.2 (including)2.2.2 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.3.0 (including)2.3.0 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.3.1 (including)2.3.1 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.3.2 (including)2.3.2 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.4.0 (including)2.4.0 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.4.0a (including)2.4.0a (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.4.1 (including)2.4.1 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.4.2 (including)2.4.2 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.4.3 (including)2.4.3 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.5.0 (including)2.5.0 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.5.1 (including)2.5.1 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.5.2 (including)2.5.2 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.5.3 (including)2.5.3 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.5.4 (including)2.5.4 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.5.5 (including)2.5.5 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.5.6 (including)2.5.6 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.5.7 (including)2.5.7 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.6.0 (including)2.6.0 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.6.1 (including)2.6.1 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.6.2 (including)2.6.2 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.6.3 (including)2.6.3 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.6.4 (including)2.6.4 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan2.7.0 (including)2.7.0 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.0.0 (including)4.0.0 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.0.1 (including)4.0.1 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.0.2 (including)4.0.2 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.0.3 (including)4.0.3 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.0.4 (including)4.0.4 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.0.5 (including)4.0.5 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.0.6 (including)4.0.6 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.0.7 (including)4.0.7 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.1.0 (including)4.1.0 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.1.1 (including)4.1.1 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.1.2 (including)4.1.2 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.1.3 (including)4.1.3 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.1.4 (including)4.1.4 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.1.5 (including)4.1.5 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.1.6 (including)4.1.6 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.1.7 (including)4.1.7 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.1.8 (including)4.1.8 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.1.9 (including)4.1.9 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.1.10 (including)4.1.10 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.1.11 (including)4.1.11 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.2.0 (including)4.2.0 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.2.1 (including)4.2.1 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.2.2 (including)4.2.2 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.2.3 (including)4.2.3 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.2.4 (including)4.2.4 (including)
StrongswanStrongswan4.2.5 (including)4.2.5 (including)
StrongswanUbuntugutsy*
StrongswanUbuntuhardy*
StrongswanUbuntuupstream*

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