CVE-2005-0162

HIGH 7.2CVE-2005-0162 · Published 26/01/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-0162 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.2) vulnerability affecting openswan (openswan), openswan (xelerance).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 76.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
openswan openswan	`≤ 1.0.9`	No fix yet
openswan xelerance	`= 2.3.0`	No fix yet

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the get_internal_addresses function in the pluto application for Openswan 1.x before 1.0.9, and Openswan 2.x before 2.3.0, when compiled with XAUTH and PAM enabled, allows remote authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

openswan

≤ 1.0.9

No fix yet

openswan

xelerance

= 2.3.0

No fix yet

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