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CVE-2009-0790

N/A

Published: April 1, 2009 at 10:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:05 PM UTC

2 products affected across 2 vendorsstrongSwanOpenswan

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 3%

Description

The pluto IKE daemon in Openswan and Strongswan IPsec 2.6 before 2.6.21 and 2.4 before 2.4.14, and Strongswan 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 2.8 before 2.8.9, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash and restart) via a crafted (1) R_U_THERE or (2) R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection (DPD) IPsec IKE Notification message that triggers a NULL pointer dereference related to inconsistent ISAKMP state and the lack of a phase2 state association in DPD.

Affected

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

Openswan · Xelerance

95%

2.4.0 2.4.1 2.4.10 2.4.2 2.4.3 2.4.4 2.4.5 2.4.9 2.6.03 2.6.04 2.6.05 2.6.06 2.6.07 2.6.08 2.6.09 2.6.10 2.6.11 2.6.12 2.6.13 2.6.14 2.6.15 2.6.16 2.6.17 2.6.18 2.6.19 2.6.20

Remediation

No guide yet

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

Patch and advisory references

References (17)

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES4.txt

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/34472

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/34483

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/34494

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/34546

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANPatch

Source: [email protected]

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1759

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANPatch

Source: [email protected]

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1760

CVSS

5MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: NONE
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-20

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