CVE-2008-4551
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.51% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 84.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-10-14 19:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 10:17Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-10-14
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 417e17e84e3a7fe3bf8e3c9e2b9bb958804dd213e8f359994afdc5dc7741b4f7
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-2660http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2660
- www.securitytracker.com1020903http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020903
- www.securityfocus.com31291http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31291
- labs.mudynamics.comhttp://labs.mudynamics.com/advisories/MU-200809-01.txt
- secunia.com31963http://secunia.com/advisories/31963
- download.strongswan.orghttp://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES4.txt
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- strongswan Fixed in 4.2.4-5
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- strongswan Fixed in 4.2.4-5
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- strongswan Fixed in 4.2.4-5
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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