USN-2450-1

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    USN-2450-1

    Published: 5 Jan 2015Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: strongswan vulnerability

    Details: Mike Daskalakis discovered that strongSwan incorrectly handled IKEv2 payloads that contained the Diffie-Hellman group 1025. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the IKE daemon to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2450-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9221

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: strongswan

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.1.2-0ubuntu2.2

    Affected versions

    4.6.4-9

    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