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strongswan — security advisory
The IKE daemon in strongSwan 4.3.x before 4.3.7 and 4.4.x before 4.4.1 does not properly check the return values of snprintf calls, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted (1) certificate or (2) identity data that triggers buffer overflows.
- Products
- strongswan
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4.4.1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2010-2628
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The IKE daemon in strongSwan 4.3.x before 4.3.7 and 4.4.x before 4.4.1 does not properly check the return values of snprintf calls, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted (1) certificate or (2) identity data that triggers buffer overflows.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2628
strongswan
Fixed versions: 4.4.1-1
strongswan
Fixed versions: 4.4.1-1
strongswan
Fixed versions: 4.4.1-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:44.747445652Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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