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CVE-2008-4551

N/A
Published: October 14, 2008 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:58 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorstrongSwan

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%

Description

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (6)

x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES4.txt
x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://labs.mudynamics.com/advisories/MU-200809-01.txt
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/31963
VDB Entryx_refsource_BID
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31291
VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020903
VDB Entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2660

CVSS

5MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-399

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