VDB-72997 · CVE-2014-2037 · BID 65629

Openswan 2.6.40 IKE Daemon input validation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Openswan 2.6.40. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component IKE Daemon. This manipulation causes input validation. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2014-2037. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Openswan 2.6.40. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component IKE Daemon. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Openswan 2.6.40 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and IKE daemon restart) via IKEv2 packets that lack expected payloads. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE 2013-6466.

The weakness was disclosed 11/26/2014 (Website). The advisory is shared at lists.openswan.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2014-2037 since 02/19/2014. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at SecurityFocus (BID 65629†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-53181†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Input validation
CWE: CWE-20
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Timelineinfo

02/18/2014 🔍
02/19/2014 +1 days 🔍
11/26/2014 +280 days 🔍
11/26/2014 +0 days 🔍
03/27/2015 +121 days 🔍
10/02/2015 +189 days 🔍
02/02/2018 +854 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: lists.openswan.org
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2014-2037 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-2037
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-72997
SecurityFocus: 65629
Vulnerability Center: 53181 - Openswan 2.6.40 Remote DoS Vulnerability via IKEv2 Packets, Medium

Entryinfo

Created: 03/27/2015 14:56
Updated: 02/02/2018 09:39
Changes: 03/27/2015 14:56 (51), 02/02/2018 09:39 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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