CVE-2014-9221

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-9221
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-01-07 19:59:01 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionstrongSwan 4.5.x through 5.2.x before 5.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via a crafted IKEv2 Key Exchange (KE) message with Diffie-Hellman (DH) group 1025.

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-19 | 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
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 21 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.5.0 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.5.1 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.5.2 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.5.3 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.6.0 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.6.1 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.6.2 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.6.3 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 4.6.4 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 5.0.0 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 5.0.1 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 5.0.2 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 5.0.3 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 5.0.4 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 5.1.0 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 5.1.1 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 5.1.2 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 5.1.3 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan 5.2.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Advisory SA62071 - Debian update for strongswan - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
strongSwan - strongSwan 5.2.2 Released af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 strongswan.org Vendor Advisory
strongSwan - strongSwan Denial-of-Service Vulnerability (CVE-2014-9221) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 strongswan.org
USN-2450-1: strongSwan vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA62095 - strongSwan IKE_SA_INIT Message Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Security Advisory SA62663 - SUSE update for strongswan - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: strongswan-5.2.2-2.fc21 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3118-1 strongswan af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Strongswan IKEv2 Payloads CVE-2014-9221 Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
openSUSE-SU-2015:0114-1: moderate: Security update for strongswan af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
strongSwan - strongSwan Denial-of-Service Vulnerability (CVE-2014-9221) MITRE strongswan.org
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