High severity · published Jun 13, 2017
CVE-2016-5391
libreswan before 3.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and pluto daemon restart)
7.5
CVSS
3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
libreswan before 3.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and pluto daemon restart).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.0% · higher than 87% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
23; 24 · source: NVD
LI
Libreswan · Libreswan
through 3.17 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5391
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5391
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1356183
Patch
https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2016-5391/CVE-2016-5391.txt
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/65R6OA5AY7K2UBQUDOLOS5Y3SCULQI6I/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UKMS7R4TG6LTAGEBOWVUXF6LAWQXLNXV/
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