CVE-2008-4551
EPSS 1.2%
Description
strongSwan 4.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an IKE_SA_INIT message with a large number of NULL values in a Key Exchange payload, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference for the return value of the mpz_export function in the GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP).
How to fix CVE-2008-4551
To remediate CVE-2008-4551, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/strongswan—upgrade to 4.2.4-5 or later
Is CVE-2008-4551 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 4.2.4-5