CVE-2014-2891

medium

Published 2014-05-07 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

strongSwan before 5.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and IKE daemon crash) via a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload.

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.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`5.1.2-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`5.1.2-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`5.1.2-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`5.1.2-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`5.1.2-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
debian	strongswan	`{"endIncluding":"5.1.2"}`
strongswan	strongswan	`{"endIncluding":"5.1.1"}`
strongswan	strongswan	`5.0.0`
strongswan	strongswan	`5.0.1`
strongswan	strongswan	`5.0.2`
strongswan	strongswan	`5.0.3`
strongswan	strongswan	`5.0.4`
strongswan	strongswan	`5.1.0`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.