CVE-2013-4564

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2013-4564 · Published 07/01/2014 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2013-4564 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting libreswan (libreswan).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.7%, higher than 85.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
libreswan libreswan	`= 3.6`	No fix yet

Description

Libreswan 3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a small length value and (1) no version or (2) an invalid major number in an IKE packet.

References

lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124911.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124928.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124943.html
secunia.com/advisories/56276 · Vendor Advisory
libreswan.org/security/CVE-2013-4564/CVE-2013-4564.txt.asc · Vendor Advisory
lists.libreswan.org/pipermail/swan-announce/2013/000007.html · Patch

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

libreswan

= 3.6

No fix yet

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