# CVE-2009-1957: charon/sa/ike\_sa.c in the charon daemon in strongSWAN before 4.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer derefe

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2009-06-06 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

charon/sa/ike_sa.c in the charon daemon in strongSWAN before 4.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via an invalid IKE_SA_INIT request that triggers "an incomplete state," followed by a CREATE_CHILD_SA request.

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## References

- http://secunia.com/advisories/35296
- http://download.strongswan.org/patches/03_invalid_ike_state_patch/strongswan-4.x.x_invalid_ike_state.patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36922
- https://lists.strongswan.org/pipermail/users/2009-May/003457.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1899
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35178
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35685
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html
- http://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES4.txt
- http://download.strongswan.org/patches/03_invalid_ike_state_patch/strongswan-4.x.x_invalid_ike_state.readme

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