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CVE-2009-0790 Detail

Description

The pluto IKE daemon in Openswan and Strongswan IPsec 2.6 before 2.6.21 and 2.4 before 2.4.14, and Strongswan 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 2.8 before 2.8.9, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash and restart) via a crafted (1) R_U_THERE or (2) R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection (DPD) IPsec IKE Notification message that triggers a NULL pointer dereference related to inconsistent ISAKMP state and the lack of a phase2 state association in DPD.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES4.txt Vendor Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1759 Patch 
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1760 Patch 
http://www.openswan.org/CVE-2009-0790/CVE-2009-0790.txt Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0402.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502270/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34296 Patch 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021949
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021950
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0886
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49523
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11171

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-0790
NVD Published Date:
04/01/2009
NVD Last Modified:
07/29/2019
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.