CVE-2015-3204 (GCVE-0-2015-3204)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-07-01 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 05:39
VLAI
Summary
libreswan 3.9 through 3.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon restart) via an IKEv1 packet with (1) unassigned bits set in the IPSEC DOI value or (2) the next payload value set to ISAKMP_NEXT_SAK.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1046 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2015-3204/CVE-… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1154.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-13 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75392 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2015-06-01 00:00
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