DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0790

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-0790
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0790.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0790
Upstream
Downstream
Published
2009-04-01T10:30:00Z
Modified
2026-09-17T06:47:43Z
Summary
[none]
Details

The pluto IKE daemon in Openswan and Strongswan IPsec 2.6 before 2.6.21 and 2.4 before 2.4.14, and Strongswan 4.2 before 4.2.14 and 2.8 before 2.8.9, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash and restart) via a crafted (1) R_U_THERE or (2) R_U_THERE_ACK Dead Peer Detection (DPD) IPsec IKE Notification message that triggers a NULL pointer dereference related to inconsistent ISAKMP state and the lack of a phase2 state association in DPD.

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / strongswan

Package

Name
strongswan
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/strongswan?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.2.14-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "medium"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0790.json"

Debian:13 / strongswan

Package

Name
strongswan
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/strongswan?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.2.14-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "medium"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0790.json"

Debian:14 / strongswan

Package

Name
strongswan
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/strongswan?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.2.14-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "medium"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0790.json"