CVE-2018-5388 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00077.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00047.html 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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5