CVE-2018-5388 (GCVE-0-2018-5388)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-05-31 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 05:33
VLAI
Summary
In stroke_socket.c in strongSwan before 5.6.3, a missing packet length check could allow a buffer underflow, which may lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service while reading from the socket.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
certcc CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 42/100 over 156 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
strongSwan strongSwan Affected: 5.6.3 , < 5.6.3 (custom)
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Date Public
2018-05-22 00:00
Credits
Thanks to Kevin Backhouse for reporting this vulnerability.
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