CVE-2023-38711

Summary

CVECVE-2023-38711
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-08-25 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-31 00:38:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Libreswan before 4.12. When an IKEv1 Quick Mode connection configured with ID_IPV4_ADDR or ID_IPV6_ADDR receives an IDcr payload with ID_FQDN, a NULL pointer dereference causes a crash and restart of the pluto daemon. NOTE: the earliest affected version is 4.6.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libreswan Libreswan All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Index of /security/CVE-2023-38711/ MISC libreswan.org
Tags · libreswan/libreswan · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 161115 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for libreswan (ELSA-2023-6549)
  • 161181 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for libreswan (ELSA-2023-7052)
  • 242396 Red Hat Update for libreswan (RHSA-2023:6549)
  • 242409 Red Hat Update for libreswan (RHSA-2023:7052)
  • 284426 Fedora Security Update for libreswan (FEDORA-2023-ddd6e6b49b)
  • 284427 Fedora Security Update for libreswan (FEDORA-2023-dbc6d8a124)
  • 379626 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for libreswan (ALINUX3-SA-2024:0039)
  • 506109 Alpine Linux Security Update for libreswan
  • 907266 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for libreswan (28065-1)
  • 941393 AlmaLinux Security Update for libreswan (ALSA-2023:6549)
  • 941474 AlmaLinux Security Update for libreswan (ALSA-2023:7052)
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