CVE-2016-5391 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Libreswan versions prior to 3.18, including specific Fedora Project distributions. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a NULL pointer dereference, leading to a restart of the pluto daemon. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.5 (High), it is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 3.17CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:libreswan:libreswan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
23CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
24CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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