CVE-2008-4551

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-4551
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-10-14 20:00:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionstrongSwan 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 a NULL pointer dereference for the return value of the mpz_export function in the GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP).

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.0.0 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.0.1 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.0.2 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.1.0 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.1.1 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.1.2 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.1.3 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.1.4 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.1.5 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.2.0 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.2.1 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.2.2 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.3.0 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.3.1 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.3.2 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.4.0 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.4.0a All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.4.1 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.4.2 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.4.3 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.5.0 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.5.1 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.5.2 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.5.3 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.5.4 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.5.5 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.5.6 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.5.7 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.6.0 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.6.1 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.6.2 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.6.3 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.6.4 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 2.7.0 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.0.0 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.0.1 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.0.2 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.0.3 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.0.4 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.0.5 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.0.6 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.0.7 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.1.0 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.1.1 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.1.10 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.1.11 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.1.2 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.1.3 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.1.4 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.1.5 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.1.6 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.1.7 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.1.8 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.1.9 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.2.0 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.2.1 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.2.2 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.2.3 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.2.4 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.2.5 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
labs.mudynamics.com/advisories/MU-200809-01.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 labs.mudynamics.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
download.strongswan.org/CHANGES4.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 download.strongswan.org
strongSwan IKEv2 Daemon Denial of Service Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
strongSwan IKE_SA_INIT Null Pointer Dereference Lets Remote Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
strongSwan 'mpz_export()' Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
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