CVE-2014-9221
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
strongSwan 4.5.x through 5.2.x before 5.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via a crafted IKEv2 Key Exchange (KE) message with Diffie-Hellman (DH) group 1025.
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 | 7.0 | affected | |
| fedora | 21 | affected | |
| suse | 13.1 | affected | |
| suse | 13.2 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 14.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 14.10 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 5.2.1-5 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 5.2.1-5 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 5.2.1-5 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 5.2.1-5 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 5.2.1-5 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| strongswan | strongswan | 4.5.0 | |
| strongswan | strongswan | 4.5.1 | |
| strongswan | strongswan | 4.5.2 | |
| strongswan | strongswan | 4.5.3 | |
| strongswan | strongswan | 4.6.0 | |
| strongswan | strongswan | 4.6.1 | |
| strongswan | strongswan | 4.6.2 | |
| strongswan | strongswan | 4.6.3 | |
| strongswan | strongswan | 4.6.4 | |
| 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 | |
| strongswan | strongswan | 5.1.1 | |
| strongswan | strongswan | 5.1.2 | |
| strongswan | strongswan | 5.1.3 | |
| strongswan | strongswan | 5.2.0 | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153825.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00054.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62071
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62083
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62095
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62663
- http://strongswan.org/blog/2015/01/05/strongswan-5.2.2-released.html
- http://strongswan.org/blog/2015/01/05/strongswan-denial-of-service-vulnerability-%28cve-2014-9221%29.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3118
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71894
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2450-1
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9221
CWEs
CWE-19
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.