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strongswan — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0790

The pluto IKE daemon in Openswan and Strongswan IPsec 2.6 before 2.6.21 and 2.4 before 2.4.14, and Strongswan 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 2.8 before 2.8.9, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash and restart) via a crafted (1) R_U_THERE or (2) R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection (DPD) IPsec IKE Notification message that triggers a NULL pointer dereference related to inconsistent ISAKMP state and the lack of a phase2 state association in DPD.

Products
strongswan
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
4.2.14-1
CVEs
CVE-2009-0790
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
31 Oct 2026, 23:17 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0790

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 Apr 2009, 10:30 UTC

The pluto IKE daemon in Openswan and Strongswan IPsec 2.6 before 2.6.21 and 2.4 before 2.4.14, and Strongswan 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 2.8 before 2.8.9, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash and restart) via a crafted (1) R_U_THERE or (2) R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection (DPD) IPsec IKE Notification message that triggers a NULL pointer dereference related to inconsistent ISAKMP state and the lack of a phase2 state association in DPD.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0790

strongswan

Fixed versions: 4.2.14-1

strongswan

Fixed versions: 4.2.14-1

strongswan

Fixed versions: 4.2.14-1

Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0790",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "The pluto IKE daemon in Openswan and Strongswan IPsec 2.6 before 2.6.21 and 2.4 before 2.4.14, and Strongswan 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 2.8 before 2.8.9, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash and restart) via a crafted (1) R_U_THERE or (2) R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection (DPD) IPsec IKE Notification message that triggers a NULL pointer dereference related to inconsistent ISAKMP state and the lack of a phase2 state association in DPD.",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:40.028553047Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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        "CVE-2009-0790"
      ],
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        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-0790"
      ]
    },
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 418231,
  "published_at": "2009-04-01T10:30:00.267+00:00"
}