PT-2010-4157 · Strongswan · Strongswan

Martin Willi · Published 2010-08-20 · Updated 2010-08-24 · CVE-2010-2628

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions strongSwan versions 4.3.x through 4.3.6 strongSwan versions 4.4.x through 4.4.0

Description The issue is related to the IKE daemon in strongSwan, where it does not properly check the return values of snprintf calls. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted certificate or identity data that triggers buffer overflows.

Recommendations For strongSwan versions 4.3.x through 4.3.6, update to version 4.3.7 or later. For strongSwan versions 4.4.x through 4.4.0, update to version 4.4.1 or later.

Fix

RCE

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-2628

Affected Products

Strongswan

References · 18

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2628 · Vendor Advisory
• http://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.3.5_snprintf.patch · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2628 · Security Note
• https://lists.strongswan.org/pipermail/users/2010-August/005167.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/40956 · Vendor Advisory
• http://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.3.4_snprintf.patch · Patch
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2085 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2628 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/42444 · Patch
• http://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.3.6_snprintf.patch · Patch
• http://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.3.3_snprintf.patch · Patch
• http://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.4.0_snprintf.patch · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2010-2628 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2086 · Note
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/615915 · Note