CVE-2017-11185 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The gmp plugin in strongSwan before 5.6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted RSA signature.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00707.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Strongswan	Strongswan

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-1059-1	strongswan security update
Debian DSA	DSA-3962-1	strongswan security update
EUVD	EUVD-2017-2819	The gmp plugin in strongSwan before 5.6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted RSA signature.
Ubuntu USN	USN-3397-1	strongSwan vulnerability

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3962
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100492
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11185
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-11185
https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2017/08/14/strongswan-vulnerability-%28cve-2017-11185%29.html
https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2017/08/14/strongswan-vulnerability-(cve-2017-11185).html

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-18T17:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:57:58.100Z

Reserved: 2017-07-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-11185

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-08-18T17:29:01.497

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-11185

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-08-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-11185 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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