strongswan — security advisory
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
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",
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:40.028553047Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 418231,
"published_at": "2009-04-01T10:30:00.267+00:00"
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