CVE-2010-2628
The IKE daemon in strongSwan 4.3.x before 4.3.7 and 4.4.x before 4.4.1 does not properly check the return values of snprintf calls, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted
02 Description
The IKE daemon in strongSwan 4.3.x before 4.3.7 and 4.4.x before 4.4.1 does not properly check the return values of snprintf calls, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted
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
- 4.05% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 90.2% 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
- 2010-08-20 17:00Z16 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-17 03:32Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2010-07-06
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 8c5ea1cdc84e12e95efce6af7f51ae8acfac2c8bf324cf45713047f0a34da3e4
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-2086http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2086
- lists.opensuse.org[opensuse-updates] 20100810 openSUSE-SU-2010:0496-1 (important): strongswan: fixing snprintf overflowshttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2010-08/msg00026.html
- lists.strongswan.org[users] 20100802 ANNOUNCE: strongswan-4.4.1 releasedhttps://lists.strongswan.org/pipermail/users/2010-August/005167.html
- download.strongswan.orghttp://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.3.4_snprintf.patch
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-2085http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2085
- www.securitytracker.com1024338http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024338
- download.strongswan.orghttp://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.4.0_snprintf.patch
- download.strongswan.orghttp://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.3.6_snprintf.patch
- download.strongswan.orghttp://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.3.3_snprintf.patch
- secunia.com40956http://secunia.com/advisories/40956
- www.securityfocus.com42444http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42444
- bugzilla.novell.comhttps://bugzilla.novell.com/615915
- trac.strongswan.orghttp://trac.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/441
- download.strongswan.orghttp://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.3.5_snprintf.patch
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- strongswan Fixed in 4.4.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- strongswan Fixed in 4.4.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- strongswan Fixed in 4.4.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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