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libreswan — security advisory
An out-of-bounds buffer read flaw was found in the pluto daemon of libreswan from versions 3.27 till 3.31 where, an unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash libreswan by sending specially-crafted IKEv1 Informational Exchange packets. The daemon respawns after the crash.
- Products
- libreswan
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 3.32-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-1763
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:05 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An out-of-bounds buffer read flaw was found in the pluto daemon of libreswan from versions 3.27 till 3.31 where, an unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash libreswan by sending specially-crafted IKEv1 Informational Exchange packets. The daemon respawns after the crash.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1763
libreswan
Fixed versions: 3.32-1
libreswan
Fixed versions: 3.32-1
libreswan
Fixed versions: 3.32-1
Complete source record
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