CVE-2023-38712

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CVE-2023-38712

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CVE-2023-38712 at MITRE

Description

An issue was discovered in Libreswan 3.x and 4.x before 4.12. When an IKEv1 ISAKMP SA Informational Exchange packet contains a Delete/Notify payload followed by further Notifies that act on the ISAKMP SA, such as a duplicated Delete/Notify message, a NULL pointer dereference on the deleted state causes the pluto daemon to crash and restart.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Liberty Linux 8	libreswan >= 4.12-2.el8	Patchnames: RHSA-2023:7052
SUSE Liberty Linux 9	libreswan >= 4.12-1.el9	Patchnames: RHSA-2023:6549

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Aug 9 08:01:46 2023
CVE page last modified: Wed Nov 29 00:39:57 2023