CVE-2009-2185

CVE Details

Release Date:

2009-06-25

Description

The ASN.1 parser (pluto/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1_parser.c) in (a) strongSwan 2.8 before 2.8.10, 4.2 before 4.2.16, and 4.3 before 4.3.2; and (b) openSwan 2.6 before 2.6.22 and 2.4 before 2.4.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pluto IKE daemon crash) via an X.509 certificate with (1) crafted Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs), (2) a crafted UTCTIME string, or (3) a crafted GENERALIZEDTIME string.

See more information about CVE-2009-2185 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	5	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (openswan)	ELSA-2009-1138	2009-07-02

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