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CVE-2023-38712

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.5)—

An issue was discovered in Libreswan 3.x and 4.x before 4.12. When an IKEv1 ISAKMP SA Informational Exchange packet contains a Delete/Notify payload followed by further Notifies that act on the ISAKMP SA, such as a duplicated Delete/Notify message, a NULL pointer dereference on the deleted state causes the pluto daemon to crash and restart.

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Libreswan — Libreswan

CWEs

References

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