Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-1957 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Strongswan
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
charon/sa/ike_sa.c in the charon daemon in strongSWAN before 4.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via an invalid IKE_SA_INIT request that triggers "an incomplete state," followed by a CREATE_CHILD_SA request.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_0_STRONGSWAN-090608.NASL description This update fixes two denial of service bugs that can lead to a remote pre-auth crash while processing a IKE_SA_INIT or a IKE_AUTH request. CVE-2009-1957 and CVE-2009-1958 have been assigned to this issue. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 40137 published 2009-07-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/40137 title openSUSE Security Update : strongswan (strongswan-965) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from openSUSE Security Update strongswan-965. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(40137); script_version("1.11"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:34"); script_cve_id("CVE-2009-1957", "CVE-2009-1958"); script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : strongswan (strongswan-965)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the strongswan-965 patch"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This update fixes two denial of service bugs that can lead to a remote pre-auth crash while processing a IKE_SA_INIT or a IKE_AUTH request. CVE-2009-1957 and CVE-2009-1958 have been assigned to this issue." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507742" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected strongswan package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_cwe_id(399); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:strongswan"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/06/08"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/07/21"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release"); if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE"); if (release !~ "^(SUSE11\.0)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "11.0", release); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch); flag = 0; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.0", reference:"strongswan-4.2.1-11.8") ) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "strongswan"); }
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-1899.NASL description Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in strongswan, an implementation of the IPSEC and IKE protocols. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-1957 CVE-2009-1958 The charon daemon can crash when processing certain crafted IKEv2 packets. (The old stable distribution (etch) was not affected by these two problems because it lacks IKEv2 support.) - CVE-2009-2185 CVE-2009-2661 The pluto daemon could crash when processing a crafted X.509 certificate. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 44764 published 2010-02-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/44764 title Debian DSA-1899-1 : strongswan - several vulnerabilities NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_STRONGSWAN-6286.NASL description This update fixes two denial of service bugs that can lead to a remote pre-auth crash while processing a IKE_SA_INIT or a IKE_AUTH request. CVE-2009-1957 / CVE-2009-1958 have been assigned to this issue. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 41587 published 2009-09-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/41587 title SuSE 10 Security Update : strongswan (ZYPP Patch Number 6286) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_1_STRONGSWAN-090608.NASL description This update fixes two denial of service bugs that can lead to a remote pre-auth crash while processing a IKE_SA_INIT or a IKE_AUTH request. CVE-2009-1957 and CVE-2009-1958 have been assigned to this issue. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 40312 published 2009-07-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/40312 title openSUSE Security Update : strongswan (strongswan-965) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_STRONGSWAN-090608.NASL description This update fixes two denial of service bugs that can lead to a remote pre-auth crash while processing a IKE_SA_INIT or a IKE_AUTH request. CVE-2009-1957 / CVE-2009-1958 have been assigned to this issue. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 41455 published 2009-09-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/41455 title SuSE 11 Security Update : strongswan (SAT Patch Number 966)
References
- http://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES4.txt
- http://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES4.txt
- http://download.strongswan.org/patches/03_invalid_ike_state_patch/strongswan-4.x.x_invalid_ike_state.patch
- http://download.strongswan.org/patches/03_invalid_ike_state_patch/strongswan-4.x.x_invalid_ike_state.patch
- http://download.strongswan.org/patches/03_invalid_ike_state_patch/strongswan-4.x.x_invalid_ike_state.readme
- http://download.strongswan.org/patches/03_invalid_ike_state_patch/strongswan-4.x.x_invalid_ike_state.readme
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35296
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35296
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35685
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35685
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36922
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36922
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1899
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1899
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35178
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35178
- https://lists.strongswan.org/pipermail/users/2009-May/003457.html
- https://lists.strongswan.org/pipermail/users/2009-May/003457.html