oss-security - CVE request: strongswam denial-of-service

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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:54:00 +0200
From: Thomas Biege <thomas@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley@...re.org
Subject: CVE request: strongswam denial-of-service

Hi,
our maintainer of strongswan found this:

See also http://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES4.txt
"[...]
strongswan-4.2.7
----------------

- Fixed a Denial-of-Service vulnerability where an IKE_SA_INIT message with
  a KE payload containing zeroes only can cause a crash of the IKEv2 charon
  daemon due to a NULL pointer returned by the mpz_export() function of the
  GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP). Thanks go to Mu Dynamics Research Labs
  for making us aware of this problem.
[...]"


patch: http://trac.strongswan.org/changeset/4345Hi,




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     Thomas
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