# CVE-2018-10811: strongSwan 5.6.0 and older allows Remote Denial of Service because of Missing Initialization of a Variable.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-06-19 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

strongSwan 5.6.0 and older allows Remote Denial of Service because of Missing Initialization of a Variable.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16
- https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2018/05/28/strongswan-vulnerability-%28cve-2018-10811%29.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UBO6ZQKLB5RY3TV7MXADFTQKXA2LUEIL/
- https://download.strongswan.org/security/CVE-2018-10811/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3771-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4229
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00077.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00047.html

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