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Security advisory
Libreswan 4.2 through 4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted IKEv1 packet because pluto/ikev1.c wrongly expects that a state object exists. This is fixed in 4.6.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-23094
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 22:12 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Libreswan 4.2 through 4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted IKEv1 packet because pluto/ikev1.c wrongly expects that a state object exists. This is fixed in 4.6.
osv:CVE-2022-23094
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:39.923465928Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2022-23094",
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/23xxx/CVE-2022-23094.json",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HPMIHAXWQUJAPCIGNJ5J5Q6ASWQBU7T5/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UFZ7WP5LNNBW5ADIOPDSPQ23SXZJRNMP/",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23094",
"https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5048",
"https://github.com/libreswan/libreswan/issues/585"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 507496,
"published_at": "2022-01-15T01:37:32+00:00"
}