CVE-2014-2891

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-05-07 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

strongSwan before 5.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and IKE daemon crash) via a crafted ID_DER_ASN1_DN ID payload.

Affected products

Debian Strongswan: through 5.1.2
strongSwan: through 5.1.1; 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.0.4, 5.1.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00064.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00066.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59864
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2922
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67212
http://www.strongswan.org/blog/2014/05/05/strongswan-denial-of-service-vulnerability-%28cve-2014-2891%29.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00064.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00066.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59864
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2922
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67212
http://www.strongswan.org/blog/2014/05/05/strongswan-denial-of-service-vulnerability-%28cve-2014-2891%29.html

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