CVE-2016-5361

HIGH

libreswan < 3.16 - Denial of Service via Spoofed UDP Packet Retransmission

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

programs/pluto/ikev1.c in libreswan before 3.17 retransmits in initial-responder states, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) via a spoofed UDP packet. NOTE: the original behavior complies with the IKEv1 protocol, but has a required security update from the libreswan vendor; as of 2016-06-10, it is expected that several other IKEv1 implementations will have vendor-required security updates, with separate CVE IDs assigned to each.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Various Sources mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.libreswan.org/pipermail/swan-dev/2016-March/001394.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2603.html
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/10/4

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0277
EPSS Percentile 84.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (1)
libreswan/libreswan < 3.16
Published Jun 16, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026