Description
The ASN.1 parser (pluto/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1_parser.c) in (a) strongSwan 2.8 before 2.8.10, 4.2 before 4.2.16, and 4.3 before 4.3.2; and (b) openSwan 2.6 before 2.6.22 and 2.4 before 2.4.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pluto IKE daemon crash) via an X.509 certificate with (1) crafted Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs), (2) a crafted UTCTIME string, or (3) a crafted GENERALIZEDTIME string.
Published: 2009-06-24
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 8.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1898-1 New openswan packages fix denial of service
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1899-1 New strongswan packages fix denial of service
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-2181 The ASN.1 parser (pluto/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1.c, libstrongswan/asn1/asn1_parser.c) in (a) strongSwan 2.8 before 2.8.10, 4.2 before 4.2.16, and 4.3 before 4.3.2; and (b) openSwan 2.6 before 2.6.22 and 2.4 before 2.4.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pluto IKE daemon crash) via an X.509 certificate with (1) crafted Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs), (2) a crafted UTCTIME string, or (3) a crafted GENERALIZEDTIME string.
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Redhat Enterprise Linux
Strongswan Strongswan
Xelerance Openswan
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:44:55.585Z

Reserved: 2009-06-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-2185

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-06-25T02:00:00.297

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-2185

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2009-06-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-2185 - Bugzilla

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