Upstream information

CVE-2015-3240 at MITRE

Description

The pluto IKE daemon in libreswan before 3.15 and Openswan before 2.6.45, when built with NSS, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon restart) via a zero DH g^x value in a KE payload in a IKE packet.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 4.3 5
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network Network
Access Complexity Medium Low
Authentication None None
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact Partial Partial

Note from the SUSE Security Team

openswan is not affected as it was not built with NSS.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 943104 [RESOLVED / INVALID]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Liberty Linux 7
  • libreswan >= 3.15-5.el7_1
 Patchnames:
RHSA-2015:1979

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4-LTSS openswan Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS openswan Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 openswan Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-LTSS openswan Not affected

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Aug 25 15:16:42 2015
CVE page last modified: Tue Jul 2 19:01:03 2024