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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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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES4.txt CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/34472 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/34483 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/34494 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/34546 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1759 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1760 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.openswan.org/CVE-2009-0790/CVE-2009-0790.txt CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0402.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502270/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34296 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021949 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021950 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0886 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49523 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11171 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

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:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.