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CVE-2013-2053

N/A
Published: July 9, 2013 at 05:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOpenswan

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

Buffer overflow in the atodn function in Openswan before 2.6.39, when Opportunistic Encryption is enabled and an RSA key is being used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pluto IKE daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted DNS TXT records. NOTE: this might be the same vulnerability as CVE-2013-2052 and CVE-2013-2054.

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 (7)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00008.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0827.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2893
VDB Entryx_refsource_BID
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59838
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960229
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.libreswan.org/pipermail/swan-announce/2013/000003.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.openswan.org/news/13

CVSS

6.8MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119

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