CVE-2021-41990

Summary

CVECVE-2021-41990
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-10-18 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:39:00 UTC
DescriptionThe gmp plugin in strongSwan before 5.9.4 has a remote integer overflow via a crafted certificate with an RSASSA-PSS signature. For example, this can be triggered by an unrelated self-signed CA certificate sent by an initiator. Remote code execution cannot occur.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 35 All All All
Hardware Siemens 6gk5615-0aa00-2aa2 - All All All
Operating System Siemens 6gk5615-0aa00-2aa2 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens 6gk5804-0ap00-2aa2 - All All All
Operating System Siemens 6gk5804-0ap00-2aa2 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens 6gk5812-1aa00-2aa2 - All All All
Operating System Siemens 6gk5812-1aa00-2aa2 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens 6gk5812-1ba00-2aa2 - All All All
Operating System Siemens 6gk5812-1ba00-2aa2 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens 6gk5816-1aa00-2aa2 - All All All
Operating System Siemens 6gk5816-1aa00-2aa2 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens 6gk5816-1ba00-2aa2 - All All All
Operating System Siemens 6gk5816-1ba00-2aa2 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens 6gk5826-2ab00-2ab2 - All All All
Operating System Siemens 6gk5826-2ab00-2ab2 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens 6gk5856-2ea00-3aa1 - All All All
Operating System Siemens 6gk5856-2ea00-3aa1 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens 6gk5856-2ea00-3da1 - All All All
Operating System Siemens 6gk5856-2ea00-3da1 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens 6gk5874-2aa00-2aa2 - All All All
Operating System Siemens 6gk5874-2aa00-2aa2 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens 6gk5874-3aa00-2aa2 - All All All
Operating System Siemens 6gk5874-3aa00-2aa2 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens 6gk5876-3aa02-2ba2 - All All All
Operating System Siemens 6gk5876-3aa02-2ba2 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens 6gk5876-3aa02-2ea2 - All All All
Operating System Siemens 6gk5876-3aa02-2ea2 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens 6gk5876-4aa00-2ba2 - All All All
Operating System Siemens 6gk5876-4aa00-2ba2 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens 6gk5876-4aa00-2da2 - All All All
Operating System Siemens 6gk5876-4aa00-2da2 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens 6gk6108-4am00-2ba2 - All All All
Operating System Siemens 6gk6108-4am00-2ba2 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens 6gk6108-4am00-2da2 - All All All
Operating System Siemens 6gk6108-4am00-2da2 Firmware - All All All
Application Strongswan Strongswan All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Release strongSwan 5.9.4 · strongswan/strongswan · GitHub MISC github.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4989-1 strongswan DEBIAN www.debian.org
strongSwan - strongSwan Vulnerability (CVE-2021-41990) www.strongswan.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: strongswan-5.9.4-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
strongSwan - strongSwan Vulnerability (CVE-2021-41990) CONFIRM www.strongswan.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: strongswan-5.9.4-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: strongswan-5.9.4-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: strongswan-5.9.4-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-539476.pdf CONFIRM cert-portal.siemens.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: strongswan-5.9.4-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: strongswan-5.9.4-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178824 Debian Security Update for strongswan (DSA 4989-1)
  • 183320 Debian Security Update for strongswan (CVE-2021-41990)
  • 198539 Ubuntu Security Notification for strongSwan Vulnerabilities (USN-5111-1)
  • 282015 Fedora Security Update for strongswan (FEDORA-2021-0b37146973)
  • 282016 Fedora Security Update for strongswan (FEDORA-2021-b3df83339e)
  • 500669 Alpine Linux Security Update for strongswan
  • 501500 Alpine Linux Security Update for strongswan
  • 501785 Alpine Linux Security Update for strongswan
  • 502034 Alpine Linux Security Update for strongswan
  • 504439 Alpine Linux Security Update for strongswan
  • 610398 Google Android February 2022 Security Patch Missing for Samsung
  • 690851 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for strongswan (58528a94-5100-4208-a04d-edc01598cf01)
  • 751255 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for strongswan (SUSE-SU-2021:3469-1)
  • 751259 OpenSUSE Security Update for strongswan (openSUSE-SU-2021:3467-1)
  • 751299 OpenSUSE Security Update for strongswan (openSUSE-SU-2021:1399-1)
  • 900401 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for strongswan (6025)
  • 901614 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for strongswan (6896-1)
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