CVE-2017-9022
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.51%strongswan - security update
Published: 6/8/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The gmp plugin in strongSwan before 5.5.3 does not properly validate RSA public keys before calling mpz_powm_sec, which allows remote peers to cause a denial of service (floating point exception and process crash) via a crafted certificate.
Affected packages (4)
- Alpine/strongswanfrom 0, < 5.5.3-r0
- Debian/strongswanfrom 0, < 5.5.1-4
- Debian/strongswanfrom 0, < 4.5.2-1.5+deb7u9
- Debian/strongswanfrom 0, < 5.2.1-6+deb8u3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |