Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU40342

#VU40342 Input validation error in libreswan and Fedora - CVE-2016-3071

Published: April 18, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU40342

Vulnerability risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-3071

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerable software:
libreswan
Fedora

Software vendor:
libreswan.org
Fedoraproject

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Libreswan 3.16 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon restart) via an IKEv2 aes_xcbc transform.

Install update from vendor's website.