CVE-2009-0790 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the pluto IKE daemon in Openswan and Strongswan IPsec versions 2.6 before 2.6.21, 2.4 before 2.4.14, Strongswan 4.2 before 4.2.14, and 2.8 before 2.8.9. Remote attackers can trigger a NULL pointer dereference by sending a crafted R_U_THERE or R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection (DPD) IPsec IKE Notification message, causing the daemon to crash and restart. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.4.0aCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:2.4.0a:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:2.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:2.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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