CVE-2011-4073

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2011-10-28
CWE:
CWE-416
Bugzilla:
748961: CVE-2011-4073 openswan: use-after-free vulnerability leads to DoS

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Use-after-free vulnerability in the cryptographic helper handler functionality in Openswan 2.3.0 through 2.6.36 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (pluto IKE daemon crash) via vectors related to the (1) quick_outI1_continue and (2) quick_outI1 functions.

Find out more about CVE-2011-4073 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (openswan) RHSA-2011:1422 2011-11-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (openswan) RHSA-2011:1422 2011-11-02

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Openswan project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Petar Tsankov, Mohammad Torabi Dashti and David Basin of the information security group at ETH Zurich as the original reporters.

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