A vulnerability has been found in Libreswan up to 3.27 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the file programs/pluto/ikev2_send.c of the component Pluto IKE Daemon. The manipulation as part of a IKEv2 Packet leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

In Libreswan before 3.28, an assertion failure can lead to a pluto IKE daemon restart. An attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference by sending two IKEv2 packets (init_IKE and delete_IKE) in 3des_cbc mode to a Libreswan server. This affects send_v2N_spi_response_from_state in programs/pluto/ikev2_send.c when built with Network Security Services (NSS).

The weakness was presented 05/24/2019. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2019-12312 since 05/24/2019. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

Upgrading to version 3.28 eliminates this vulnerability.

See VDB-137629, VDB-217444 and VDB-237440 for similar entries.

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• 3.25
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