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strongswan — security advisory
The gmp plugin in strongSwan before 5.9.4 has a remote integer overflow via a crafted certificate with an RSASSA-PSS signature. For example, this can be triggered by an unrelated self-signed CA certificate sent by an initiator. Remote code execution cannot occur.
- Products
- strongswan
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 5.9.4-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-41990
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The gmp plugin in strongSwan before 5.9.4 has a remote integer overflow via a crafted certificate with an RSASSA-PSS signature. For example, this can be triggered by an unrelated self-signed CA certificate sent by an initiator. Remote code execution cannot occur.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-41990
strongswan
Fixed versions: 5.9.4-1
strongswan
Fixed versions: 5.9.4-1
strongswan
Fixed versions: 5.9.4-1
Complete source record
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