CVE-2015-3240
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
The pluto IKE daemon in libreswan before 3.15 and Openswan before 2.6.45, when built with NSS, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon restart) via a zero DH g^x value in a KE payload in a 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.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| 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 | 3.14 | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3240.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1979.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77536
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033418
- https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2015-3240/CVE-2015-3240.txt
- https://lists.openswan.org/pipermail/users/2015-August/023401.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-13
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3240
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.