CVE-2017-9022

Summary

CVECVE-2017-9022
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-06-08 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:50:00 UTC
DescriptionThe gmp plugin in strongSwan before 5.5.3 does not properly validate RSA public keys before calling mpz_powm_sec, which allows remote peers to cause a denial of service (floating point exception and process crash) via a crafted certificate.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
strongSwan - strongSwan Vulnerability (CVE-2017-9022) www.strongswan.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3866-1 strongswan DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
USN-3301-1: strongSwan vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
strongSwan - strongSwan Vulnerability (CVE-2017-9022) CONFIRM www.strongswan.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
strongSwan CVE-2017-9022 Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500665 Alpine Linux Security Update for strongswan
  • 504435 Alpine Linux Security Update for strongswan
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