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CVE-2008-4551

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2008-10-14 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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).

Affected Platforms

Strongswan Strongswan

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References