| Name | CVE-2018-5388 |
| Description | In stroke_socket.c in strongSwan before 5.6.3, a missing packet length check could allow a buffer underflow, which may lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service while reading from the socket. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-4229-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| strongswan (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 5.2.1-6+deb8u11 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 5.5.1-4+deb9u6 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 5.5.1-4+deb9u7 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 5.7.2-1+deb10u4 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 5.9.1-1+deb11u4 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 5.9.8-5+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 5.9.13-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[stretch] - strongswan <no-dsa> (needs root priv for access to the stroke socket)
[jessie] - strongswan <no-dsa> (needs root priv for access to the stroke socket)
[wheezy] - strongswan <no-dsa> (needs root priv for access to the stroke socket)
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/338343
https://git.strongswan.org/?p=strongswan.git;a=commitdiff;h=0acd1ab4
https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2018/05/28/strongswan-5.6.3-released.html
https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2018/05/28/strongswan-vulnerability-(cve-2018-5388).html