CVE-2021-41991

Summary

CVECVE-2021-41991
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 in-memory certificate cache in strongSwan before 5.9.4 has a remote integer overflow upon receiving many requests with different certificates to fill the cache and later trigger the replacement of cache entries. The code attempts to select a less-often-used cache entry by means of a random number generator, but this is not done correctly. Remote code execution might be a slight possibility.

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 Debian Debian Linux 9.0 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 Cp 1543-1 - All All All
Operating System Siemens Cp 1543-1 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens Scalance Sc622-2c - All All All
Operating System Siemens Scalance Sc622-2c Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens Scalance Sc632-2c - All All All
Operating System Siemens Scalance Sc632-2c Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens Scalance Sc636-2c - All All All
Operating System Siemens Scalance Sc636-2c Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens Scalance Sc642-2c - All All All
Operating System Siemens Scalance Sc642-2c Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens Scalance Sc646-2c - All All All
Operating System Siemens Scalance Sc646-2c Firmware All All All All
Hardware Siemens Simatic Cp 1242-7 Gprs V2 - All All All
Operating System Siemens Simatic Cp 1242-7 Gprs V2 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens Simatic Cp 1243-1 - All All All
Operating System Siemens Simatic Cp 1243-1 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens Simatic Cp 1243-7 Lte/us - All All All
Operating System Siemens Simatic Cp 1243-7 Lte/us Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens Simatic Cp 1542sp-1 - All All All
Operating System Siemens Simatic Cp 1542sp-1 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens Simatic Cp 1542sp-1 Irc - All All All
Operating System Siemens Simatic Cp 1542sp-1 Irc Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens Simatic Cp 1543sp-1 - All All All
Operating System Siemens Simatic Cp 1543sp-1 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens Simatic Net Cp1243-7 Lte Eu - All All All
Operating System Siemens Simatic Net Cp1243-7 Lte Eu Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens Simatic Net Cp 1243-8 Irc - All All All
Operating System Siemens Simatic Net Cp 1243-8 Irc Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens Simatic Net Cp 1545-1 - All All All
Operating System Siemens Simatic Net Cp 1545-1 Firmware - All All All
Application Siemens Sinema Remote Connect Server - All All All
Hardware Siemens Siplus Et 200sp Cp 1542sp-1 Irc Tx Rail - All All All
Operating System Siemens Siplus Et 200sp Cp 1542sp-1 Irc Tx Rail Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens Siplus Et 200sp Cp 1543sp-1 Isec - All All All
Operating System Siemens Siplus Et 200sp Cp 1543sp-1 Isec Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens Siplus Et 200sp Cp 1543sp-1 Isec Tx Rail - All All All
Operating System Siemens Siplus Et 200sp Cp 1543sp-1 Isec Tx Rail Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens Siplus Net Cp 1543-1 - All All All
Operating System Siemens Siplus Net Cp 1543-1 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens Siplus S7-1200 Cp 1243-1 - All All All
Operating System Siemens Siplus S7-1200 Cp 1243-1 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Siemens Siplus S7-1200 Cp 1243-1 Rail - All All All
Operating System Siemens Siplus S7-1200 Cp 1243-1 Rail 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-2021-41991) www.strongswan.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: strongswan-5.9.4-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: strongswan-5.9.4-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2788-1] strongswan security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: strongswan-5.9.4-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
strongSwan - strongSwan Vulnerability (CVE-2021-41991) CONFIRM www.strongswan.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)
  • 178847 Debian Security Update for strongswan (DLA 2788-1)
  • 184571 Debian Security Update for strongswan (CVE-2021-41991)
  • 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
  • 671395 EulerOS Security Update for strongimcv (EulerOS-SA-2022-1338)
  • 671678 EulerOS Security Update for strongimcv (EulerOS-SA-2022-1767)
  • 690851 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for strongswan (58528a94-5100-4208-a04d-edc01598cf01)
  • 751250 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for strongswan (SUSE-SU-2021:3468-1)
  • 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)
  • 900402 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for strongswan (6027)
  • 901261 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for strongswan (6897-1)
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