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libreswan — security advisory
An issue was discovered in Libreswan 3.x and 4.x before 4.12. When an IKEv1 ISAKMP SA Informational Exchange packet contains a Delete/Notify payload followed by further Notifies that act on the ISAKMP SA, such as a duplicated Delete/Notify message, a NULL pointer dereference on the deleted state causes the pluto daemon to crash and restart.
- Products
- libreswan
- Affected versions
- 4.10-2, 4.10-2+deb12u1, 4.11-1, 4.12-1, 4.12-2, 4.12-3, 4.14-1, 4.14-1.1, 4.15-1, 5.0~rc2-1, 5.0~rc2-2, 5.2-1, 5.2-2, 5.2-2.1, 5.2-2.2, 5.2-2.3, 5.2-2.4, 5.2-2.5
- Fixed versions
- 4.12-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-38712
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 16:05 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Libreswan 3.x and 4.x before 4.12. When an IKEv1 ISAKMP SA Informational Exchange packet contains a Delete/Notify payload followed by further Notifies that act on the ISAKMP SA, such as a duplicated Delete/Notify message, a NULL pointer dereference on the deleted state causes the pluto daemon to crash and restart.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38712
libreswan
Fixed versions: Not specified
libreswan
Fixed versions: 4.12-1
libreswan
Fixed versions: 4.12-1
Complete source record
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