CVE-2009-1957

NameCVE-2009-1957
Descriptioncharon/sa/ike_sa.c in the charon daemon in strongSWAN before 4.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via an invalid IKE_SA_INIT request that triggers "an incomplete state," followed by a CREATE_CHILD_SA request.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1899-1
Debian Bugs531612

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
strongswan (PTS)buster5.7.2-1+deb10u2fixed
buster (security)5.7.2-1+deb10u4fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye5.9.1-1+deb11u4fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)5.9.8-5+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie5.9.13-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
strongswansourceetch2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch2DSA-1899-1
strongswansourcelenny4.2.4-5+lenny3DSA-1899-1
strongswansource(unstable)4.2.14-1.1medium531612

Notes

[etch] - strongswan <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present, IKEv2 was introduced in 4.3)

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