Upstream information

CVE-2023-38711 at MITRE

Description

An issue was discovered in Libreswan before 4.12. When an IKEv1 Quick Mode connection configured with ID_IPV4_ADDR or ID_IPV6_ADDR receives an IDcr payload with ID_FQDN, a NULL pointer dereference causes a crash and restart of the pluto daemon. NOTE: the earliest affected version is 4.6.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

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List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Liberty Linux 8
  • libreswan >= 4.12-2.el8
 Patchnames:
RHSA-2023:7052
SUSE Liberty Linux 9
  • libreswan >= 4.12-1.el9
 Patchnames:
RHSA-2023:6549

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Aug 9 08:01:38 2023
CVE page last modified: Wed Nov 29 00:39:56 2023