DEBIAN-CVE-2019-12312

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-12312
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-12312.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-12312
Upstream
Published
2019-05-24T14:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:25Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In Libreswan 3.27 an assertion failure can lead to a pluto IKE daemon restart. An attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference by initiating an IKEv2 IKESAINIT exchange, followed by a bogus INFORMATIONAL exchange instead of the normallly expected IKEAUTH exchange. This affects sendv2Nspiresponsefromstate() in programs/pluto/ikev2_send.c that will then trigger a NULL pointer dereference leading to a restart of libreswan.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / libreswan

Package

Name
libreswan
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libreswan?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.27-5

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / libreswan

Package

Name
libreswan
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libreswan?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.27-5

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / libreswan

Package

Name
libreswan
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libreswan?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.27-5

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / libreswan

Package

Name
libreswan
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libreswan?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.27-5

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}