CVE-2013-4564
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
Libreswan 3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a small length value and (1) no version or (2) an invalid major number in an IKE packet.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 0 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| libreswan | libreswan | 3.6 | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124911.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124928.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124943.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56276
- https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2013-4564/CVE-2013-4564.txt.asc
- https://lists.libreswan.org/pipermail/swan-announce/2013/000007.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4564
CWEs
CWE-189
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.