CVE-2014-2037 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Openswan 2.6.40 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and IKE daemon restart) via IKEv2 packets that lack expected payloads. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE 2013-6466.

Published: 2014-11-26

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:xelerance:openswan:2.6.40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2014-2089	Openswan 2.6.40 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and IKE daemon restart) via IKEv2 packets that lack expected payloads. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE 2013-6466.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00734.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/18/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/20/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65629
https://lists.openswan.org/pipermail/users/2014-February/022898.html

History

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Subscriptions

Xelerance Openswan

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2014-11-26T15:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T09:58:16.183Z

Reserved: 2014-02-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-2037

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-11-26T15:59:00.090

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-2037

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-20

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