CVE-2009-0790

NameCVE-2009-0790
DescriptionThe pluto IKE daemon in Openswan and Strongswan IPsec 2.6 before 2.6.21 and 2.4 before 2.4.14, and Strongswan 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 2.8 before 2.8.9, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash and restart) via a crafted (1) R_U_THERE or (2) R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection (DPD) IPsec IKE Notification message that triggers a NULL pointer dereference related to inconsistent ISAKMP state and the lack of a phase2 state association in DPD.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1759-1, DSA-1760-1
Debian Bugs521949, 521950

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
strongswan (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)5.2.1-6+deb8u11fixed
stretch (security)5.5.1-4+deb9u6fixed
stretch (lts), stretch5.5.1-4+deb9u7fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)5.7.2-1+deb10u4fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye5.9.1-1+deb11u4fixed
bookworm (security), bookworm5.9.8-5+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie5.9.13-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
openswansourceetch1:2.4.6+dfsg.2-1.1+etch1DSA-1760-1
openswansourcelenny1:2.4.12+dfsg-1.3+lenny1DSA-1760-1
openswansource(unstable)1:2.6.21+dfsg-1medium521949
strongswansourceetch2.8.0+dfsg-1+etch1DSA-1759-1
strongswansourcelenny4.2.4-5+lenny1DSA-1759-1
strongswansource(unstable)4.2.14-1medium521950

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