DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4551

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4551

    Published: 14 Oct 2008Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2008-4551

    Summary:

    Details: strongSwan 4.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an IKE_SA_INIT message with a large number of NULL values in a Key Exchange payload, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference for the return value of the mpz_export function in the GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP).

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4551

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: strongswan

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/strongswan?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.2.4-5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High