CVE-2009-2185

Name	CVE-2009-2185
Description	The ASN.1 parser (pluto/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1_parser.c) in (a) strongSwan 2.8 before 2.8.10, 4.2 before 4.2.16, and 4.3 before 4.3.2; and (b) openSwan 2.6 before 2.6.22 and 2.4 before 2.4.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pluto IKE daemon crash) via an X.509 certificate with (1) crafted Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs), (2) a crafted UTCTIME string, or (3) a crafted GENERALIZEDTIME string.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-1898-1, DSA-1899-1
NVD severity	medium (attack range: remote)
Debian Bugs	533837

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
strongswan (PTS)	jessie (security), jessie	5.2.1-6+deb8u6	fixed
	stretch (security), stretch	5.5.1-4+deb9u2	fixed
	buster, sid	5.6.3-1	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
openswan	source	(unstable)	1:2.6.22+dfsg-1	medium
openswan	source	etch	1:2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch2	medium	DSA-1898-1
openswan	source	lenny	1:2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny2	medium	DSA-1898-1
strongswan	source	(unstable)	4.2.14-1.2	medium		533837
strongswan	source	etch	2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch2	medium	DSA-1899-1
strongswan	source	lenny	4.2.4-5+lenny3	medium	DSA-1899-1