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CVE-2010-2628

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Description

The IKE daemon in strongSwan 4.3.x before 4.3.7 and 4.4.x before 4.4.1 does not properly check the return values of snprintf calls, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted (1) certificate or (2) identity data that triggers buffer overflows.

References

https://lists.strongswan.org/pipermail/users/2010-August/005167.html

https://bugzilla.novell.com/615915

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2086

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2085

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024338

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42444

http://trac.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/441

http://secunia.com/advisories/40956

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2010-08/msg00026.html

http://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.4.0_snprintf.patch

http://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.3.6_snprintf.patch

http://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.3.5_snprintf.patch

http://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.3.4_snprintf.patch

http://download.strongswan.org/patches/08_snprintf_patch/strongswan-4.3.3_snprintf.patch

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-08-20

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.06335

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