CVE-2018-5388

Summary

CVECVE-2018-5388
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-05-31 13:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:58:00 UTC
DescriptionIn stroke_socket.c in strongSwan before 5.6.3, a missing packet length check could allow a buffer underflow, which may lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service while reading from the socket.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

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 18.04 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 18.04 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
Application Strongswan Strongswan All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:2598-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
git.strongswan.org Git - strongswan.git/commitdiff git.strongswan.org
git.strongswan.org Git - strongswan.git/commitdiff CONFIRM git.strongswan.org Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4229-1 strongswan DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:2594-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
strongSwan: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201811-16) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
strongSwan VPN Charon Server Buffer Overflow ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
USN-3771-1: strongSwan vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
strongSwan CVE-2018-5388 Buffer Underflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0403-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
CERT Vulnerability Notes Database CERT-VN www.kb.cert.org Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Thanks to Kevin Backhouse for reporting this vulnerability.

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500666 Alpine Linux Security Update for strongswan
  • 504436 Alpine Linux Security Update for strongswan
  • 690655 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for strongswan (7fc3e827-64a5-11e8-aedb-00224d821998)
  • 710305 Gentoo Linux strongSwan Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201811-16)
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