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CVE-2015-3240 Details

Description

The pluto IKE daemon in libreswan before 3.15 and Openswan before 2.6.45, when built with NSS, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon restart) via a zero DH g^x value in a KE payload in a IKE packet.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1979.html CVE
https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2015-3240/CVE-2015-3240.txt CVEVendor Advisory
https://lists.openswan.org/pipermail/users/2015-August/023401.html CVEVendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-13 CVE
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html CVE

see all 14 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-189Numeric Errors[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
libreswan libreswan
3.14

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:libreswan:libreswan:3.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

11 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-3240
NVD Published Date:
Nov 9, 2015
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2015-3240 Details - Not Deferred