Libreswan 3.16 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon restart) via an IKEv2 aes_xcbc transform.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.06, has libreswan packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - pluto in Libreswan before 4.11 allows a denial of service (responder SPI mishandling and daemon crash) via     unauthenticated IKEv1 Aggressive Mode packets. The earliest affected version is 3.28. (CVE-2023-30570)

  - Buffer overflow in the atodn function in libreswan 3.0 and 3.1, when Opportunistic Encryption is enabled     and an RSA key is being used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pluto IKE daemon     crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted DNS TXT records. NOTE: this might be the same     vulnerability as CVE-2013-2053 and CVE-2013-2054. (CVE-2013-2052)

  - Libreswan 3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a small length value and     (1) no version or (2) an invalid major number in an IKE packet. (CVE-2013-4564)

  - Libreswan 3.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference     and IKE daemon restart) via IKEv2 packets that lack expected payloads. (CVE-2013-6467)

  - libreswan 3.9 through 3.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon restart) via an     IKEv1 packet with (1) unassigned bits set in the IPSEC DOI value or (2) the next payload value set to     ISAKMP_NEXT_SAK. (CVE-2015-3204)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Updated to 3.17 for CVE-2016-3071

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
323228	NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.06 : libreswan Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2025-0243)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	high
90517	Fedora 23 : libreswan-3.17-1.fc23 (2016-680a5a8ead)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
90462	Fedora 24 : libreswan-3.17-1.fc24 (2016-711a04c964)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2016-3071

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Tenable Plugins

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