High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-9022
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2017-9022
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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