PT-2018-14049 · Strongswan+3 · Strongswan+3

Published 2018-10-01 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-17540

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 5.7.1

Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow that can be triggered by a crafted certificate. This can be exploited via the gmp plugin in strongSwan.

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.7.1, update to version 5.7.1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the gmp plugin until a patch is applied.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2421

CVE-2018-17540

DLA-1528-1

DSA-4309-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:2594-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:2598-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_2594-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_2598-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11411-1

SUSE-SU-2019:3056-1

SUSE-SU-2019:3266-1

SUSE-SU-2022:14887-1

USN-3774-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Strongswan

References · 68

• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-01850 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2018-17540 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3774-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16151 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-17540 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-17540 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11411-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://download.strongswan.org/security/CVE-2018-17540 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00077.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2018-2421 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17540 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-1528-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00047.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17540 · Vendor Advisory