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CVE-2016-5391

libreswan before 3.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and pluto daemon restart).

Published

2017-06-13T17:29:00.240

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-476

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	libreswan	libreswan	≤ 3.17	Yes
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	23	Yes
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	24	Yes

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1356183 Issue Tracking ([email protected])
https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2016-5391/CVE-2016-5391.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/65R6OA5AY7K2UBQUDOLOS5Y3SCULQI6I/ ([email protected])
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UKMS7R4TG6LTAGEBOWVUXF6LAWQXLNXV/ ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1356183 Issue Tracking (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2016-5391/CVE-2016-5391.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/65R6OA5AY7K2UBQUDOLOS5Y3SCULQI6I/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UKMS7R4TG6LTAGEBOWVUXF6LAWQXLNXV/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)