# CVE-2019-12312: In Libreswan 3.27 an assertion failure can lead to a pluto IKE daemon restart.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-05-24 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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 IKE_SA_INIT exchange, followed by a bogus INFORMATIONAL exchange instead of the normallly expected IKE_AUTH exchange. This affects send_v2N_spi_response_from_state() in programs/pluto/ikev2_send.c that will then trigger a NULL pointer dereference leading to a restart of libreswan.

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## References

- http://www.iwantacve.cn/index.php/archives/218/
- https://github.com/libreswan/libreswan/issues/246
- https://github.com/libreswan/libreswan/compare/9b1394e...3897683
- https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2019-12312/CVE-2019-12312.txt
- https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2019-12312/libreswan-3.27-CVE-2019-12312.patch

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