CVE-2018-5388

medium

Description

In stroke_socket.c in strongSwan before 5.6.3, a missing packet length check could allow a buffer underflow, which may lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service while reading from the socket.

References

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/338343

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104263

https://git.strongswan.org/?p=strongswan.git;a=commitdiff;h=0acd1ab4

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3771-1/

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4229

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-05-31

Updated: 2019-10-09

Type: CWE-787

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

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

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 2.8

Severity: MEDIUM