PT-2017-18649 · Strongswan+3 · Strongswan+3

Published 2017-05-30 · Updated 2025-12-03 · CVE-2017-9022

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions strongSwan versions prior to 5.5.3

Description The issue is related to the improper validation of RSA public keys in the gmp plugin, which can lead to a denial of service. This occurs when remote peers send crafted certificates, causing a floating point exception and process crash.

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.5.3, update to version 5.5.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1678

CVE-2017-9022

DLA-973-1

DSA-3866-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11411-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1471-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1473-1

SUSE-SU-2017_1471-1

SUSE-SU-2017_1473-1

USN-3301-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Strongswan

References · 45

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3866-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9022 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9023 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1473-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9022 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9022 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3866-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-9022 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9022 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/strongswan · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9022 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3301-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9023 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3301-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3866 · Vendor Advisory