CVE-2018-5388 (GCVE-0-2018-5388)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-05-31 00:00
Modified
2024-08-05 05:33
Severity ?
CWE
Summary
In stroke_socket.c in strongSwan before 5.6.3, a missing packet length check could allow a buffer underflow, which may lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service while reading from the socket.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
strongSwan strongSwan Version: 5.6.3   < 5.6.3
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