CVE-2009-2185
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2009-2185 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLISHED |
| Assigner | mitre |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2009-06-25 02:00:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC |
| Description | The ASN.1 parser (pluto/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1_parser.c) in (a) strongSwan 2.8 before 2.8.10, 4.2 before 4.2.16, and 4.3 before 4.3.2; and (b) openSwan 2.6 before 2.6.22 and 2.4 before 2.4.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pluto IKE daemon crash) via an X.509 certificate with (1) crafted Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs), (2) a crafted UTCTIME string, or (3) a crafted GENERALIZEDTIME string. |
Risk And Classification
CVSS v2.0 Breakdown
Access Vector
NetworkAccess Complexity
LowAuthentication
NoneConfidentiality
NoneIntegrity
NoneAvailability
PartialAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 2.8.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 2.8.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 2.8.10 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 2.8.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 2.8.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 2.8.4 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 2.8.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 2.8.6 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 2.8.7 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 2.8.8 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 2.8.9 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 4.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 4.2.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 4.2.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 4.2.10 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 4.2.11 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 4.2.12 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 4.2.13 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 4.2.14 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 4.2.15 | 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 | 4.2.6 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 4.2.7 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 4.2.8 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 4.2.9 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 4.3.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Strongswan | Strongswan | 4.3.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.4.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.4.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.4.10 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.4.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.4.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.4.4 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.4.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.4.9 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.6.03 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.6.04 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.6.05 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.6.06 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.6.07 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.6.08 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.6.09 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.6.10 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.6.11 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.6.12 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.6.13 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.6.14 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.6.15 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.6.16 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.6.17 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.6.18 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.6.19 | All | All | All |
| Application | Xelerance | Openswan | 2.6.20 | All | All | All |
Vendor Declared Affected Products
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| [SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: openswan-2.6.21-2.fc10 | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.redhat.com | |
| Fedora update for openswan - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | |
| strongSwan Crafted X.509 Certificate Multiple Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.securityfocus.com | Patch |
| Astaro Up2Date Announcements: Up2Date 7.404 Released | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | up2date.astaro.com | |
| Repository / Oval Repository | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | oval.cisecurity.org | |
| strongSwan X.509 RDN and Time String Processing Bugs Let Remote Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.securitytracker.com | |
| Support | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.redhat.com | |
| Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.vupen.com | |
| About Secunia Research | Flexera | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | |
| download.strongswan.org/CHANGES2.txt | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | download.strongswan.org | Vendor Advisory |
| 404 Not Found | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | download.strongswan.org | Vendor Advisory |
| Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.vupen.com | |
| strongSwan ASN.1 Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | Vendor Advisory |
| Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1898-1 openswan | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.debian.org | |
| Astaro update for IPsec - Secunia.com | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | |
| download.strongswan.org/CHANGES4.txt | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | download.strongswan.org | Vendor Advisory |
| Release notice for Ingate Firewall® 4.8.1 and Ingate SIParator® 4.8.1 | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.ingate.com | |
| Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1899-1 strongswan | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.debian.org | |
| About Secunia Research | Flexera | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | |
| Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.vupen.com | |
| Security Advisory SA36950 - Debian update for openswan - Secunia | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | |
| [SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: openswan-2.6.21-5.fc11 | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.redhat.com | |
| Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.vupen.com | Vendor Advisory |
| Red Hat update for openswan - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
There are currently no legacy QID mappings associated with this CVE.