CVE-2018-5388

Several security issues were fixed in strongSwan ...

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in strongSwan, an IKE/IPsec suite CVE-2018-5388 The stroke plugin did not verify the message length when reading from its control socket This vulnerability could lead to denial of service On Debian write access to the socket requires root permission on default configuration CVE-2018-10811 ...

An integer underflow has been discovered in strongSwan VPN's charon server, which could lead to a buffer overflow and consequent crash A local attacker, with enough privileges to access the Unix Domain Socket /var/run/charonctl, could use this vulnerability to crash the charon server ...

strongSwan VPN's charon server prior to version 563 is missing a packet length check in stroke_socketc, allowing a buffer overflow which may lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service while reading from the socket According to the vendor, an attacker must typically have local root permissions to access the socket However, other accounts ...