CVE-2018-17540
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17540
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17540.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-17540
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2018-10-03T20:29:09.990Z
- Modified
- 2025-11-20T10:47:55.913473Z
- Severity
-
- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
The gmp plugin in strongSwan before 5.7.1 has a Buffer Overflow via a crafted certificate.
- References
-
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00077.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00047.html
- https://download.strongswan.org/security/CVE-2018-17540/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00001.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-16
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3774-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4309
- https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2018/10/01/strongswan-vulnerability-%28cve-2018-17540%29.html
Affected packages
Git / github.com/strongswan/strongswan
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/strongswan/strongswan
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
Affected versions
4.*
4.0.0
4.0.1
4.0.2
4.0.3
4.0.4
4.0.5
4.0.6
4.0.7
4.1.0
4.1.1
4.1.10
4.1.11
4.1.2
4.1.3
4.1.4
4.1.5
4.1.6
4.1.7
4.1.8
4.1.9
4.2.0
4.2.1
4.2.10
4.2.11
4.2.12
4.2.13
4.2.14
4.2.2
4.2.3
4.2.4
4.2.5
4.2.6
4.2.7
4.2.8
4.2.9
4.3.0
4.3.1
4.3.2
4.3.3
4.3.4
4.3.5
4.3.5rc1
4.3.6
4.4.0
4.4.1
4.5.0
4.5.1
4.5.2
4.5.3
4.6.0
4.6.1
4.6.2
4.6.3
5.*
5.0.0
5.0.1
5.0.2
5.0.2dr4
5.0.2rc1
5.0.3
5.0.3dr1
5.0.3dr2
5.0.3dr3
5.0.3rc1
5.0.4
5.1.0
5.1.0dr1
5.1.0dr2
5.1.0rc1
5.1.1
5.1.1dr1
5.1.1dr2
5.1.1dr3
5.1.1dr4
5.1.1rc1
5.1.2
5.1.2.dr2
5.1.2dr1
5.1.2dr3
5.1.2rc1
5.1.2rc2
5.1.3
5.1.3dr1
5.1.3rc1
5.2.0
5.2.0dr1
5.2.0dr2
5.2.0dr3
5.2.0dr4
5.2.0dr5
5.2.0dr6
5.2.0rc1
5.2.1
5.2.1dr1
5.2.1rc1
5.2.2
5.2.2dr1
5.2.2rc1
5.3.0
5.3.0dr1
5.3.0rc1
5.3.1
5.3.1dr1
5.3.1rc1
5.3.2
5.3.3
5.3.3dr1
5.3.3dr3
5.3.3dr4
5.3.3dr5
5.3.3dr6
5.3.3rc2
5.3.4
5.3.4dr1
5.3.4dr2
5.3.4dr3
5.3.4rc1
5.3.5
5.4.0
5.4.0dr1
5.4.0dr2
5.4.0dr3
5.4.0dr4
5.4.0dr5
5.4.0dr6
5.4.0dr7
5.4.0dr8
5.4.0rc1
5.4.1dr1
5.4.1dr2
5.4.1dr3
5.4.1dr4
5.5.0
5.5.0dr1
5.5.0rc1
5.5.1
5.5.1dr1
5.5.1dr2
5.5.1dr3
5.5.1dr4
5.5.1dr5
5.5.1rc1
5.5.1rc2
5.5.2
5.5.2dr1
5.5.2dr2
5.5.2dr3
5.5.2dr4
5.5.2dr5
5.5.2dr6
5.5.2dr7
5.5.2rc1
5.5.3
5.5.3dr1
5.5.3dr2
5.6.0
5.6.0dr1
5.6.0dr2
5.6.0dr3
5.6.0dr4
5.6.0rc1
5.6.0rc2
5.6.1
5.6.1dr1
5.6.1dr2
5.6.1dr3
5.6.1rc1
5.6.2
5.6.2dr1
5.6.2dr2
5.6.2dr3
5.6.2dr4
5.6.2rc1
5.6.3
5.6.3dr1
5.6.3dr2
5.6.3rc1
5.7.0
5.7.0dr1
5.7.0dr2
5.7.0dr3
5.7.0dr4
5.7.0dr5
5.7.0dr6
5.7.0dr8
5.7.0rc1
5.7.0rc2