CVE-2016-5391

libreswan: IKEv2 bogus proposal lacking DH transform causes pluto daemon restart

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · July 19, 2016

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

libreswan before 3.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and pluto daemon restart).

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation