strongSWAN up to 4.1.3 resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in strongSWAN up to 4.1.3 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Such manipulation leads to resource management. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2009-1957. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in strongSWAN up to 4.1.3 (Network Encryption Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

charon/sa/ike_sa.c in the charon daemon in strongSWAN before 4.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via an invalid IKE_SA_INIT request that triggers "an incomplete state," followed by a CREATE_CHILD_SA request.

The weakness was presented 06/07/2009 (Website). The advisory is available at download.strongswan.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2009-1957 since 06/06/2009. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 41455 (SuSE 11 Security Update : strongswan (SAT Patch Number 966)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SuSE Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 165632 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update (SUSE-SR:2009:012)).

Upgrading to version 4.1.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (50916), Tenable (41455), SecurityFocus (BID 35178†), Secunia (SA35296†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-22969†). See VDB-44476, VDB-48459 and VDB-47451 for similar entries. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 41455
Nessus Name: SuSE 11 Security Update : strongswan (SAT Patch Number 966)
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OpenVAS ID: 65006
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1899-1 (strongswan)
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: strongSWAN 4.1.4

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: download.strongswan.org
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2009-1957 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2009-1957
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-48458

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X-Force: 50916
SecurityFocus: 35178 - strongSwan IKE Request Multiple Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 35296 - strongSwan Two Denial of Service Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
Vulnerability Center: 22969 - StrongSWAN \x3C 4.3.1 Charon Daemon Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability, High

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/17/2015 23:38
Updated: 05/24/2025 23:02
Changes: 03/17/2015 23:38 (62), 02/12/2017 12:53 (13), 08/11/2021 14:26 (3), 05/24/2025 23:02 (18)
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