CVE-2009-2185

N/A
Published: June 24, 2009 at 11:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:08 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsstrongSwanOpenswan

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

The ASN.1 parser (pluto/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1_parser.c) in (a) strongSwan 2.8 before 2.8.10, 4.2 before 4.2.16, and 4.3 before 4.3.2; and (b) openSwan 2.6 before 2.6.22 and 2.4 before 2.4.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pluto IKE daemon crash) via an X.509 certificate with (1) crafted Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs), (2) a crafted UTCTIME string, or (3) a crafted GENERALIZEDTIME string.

References (24)

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES2.txt
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES4.txt
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES42.txt
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/35522
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35698
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35740
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35804
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/36922

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20

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