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CVE-2008-4551
strongSwan 4.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an IKE_SA_INIT message with a large…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.5%
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- mitre
Description
strongSwan 4.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an IKE_SA_INIT message with a large number of NULL values in a Key Exchange payload, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference for the return value of the mpz_export function in the GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP).
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (6)
- ADV-2008-2660 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1020903 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 31291 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://labs.mudynamics.com/advisories/MU-200809-01.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 31963 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES4.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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