CVE-2018-5388
Estado: ModificadaMedia (6.5)—
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
- Versión: 3.0
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 6.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 3.97%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 90
- Fecha de la puntuación: 4/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (3)
CWE
- CWE-124
- CWE-787
Referencias
- 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://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172833/strongSwan-VPN-Charon-Server-Buffer-Overflow.html
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/338343
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104263
- https://git.strongswan.org/?p=strongswan.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0acd1ab4
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3771-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4229
- 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://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172833/strongSwan-VPN-Charon-Server-Buffer-Overflow.html
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/338343
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104263
- https://git.strongswan.org/?p=strongswan.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=0acd1ab4
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3771-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4229
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