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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2026-12413

IKEv2 Denial of Service via malformed fragmentation

Description

An invalidly formatted IKEv2 fragment causes the Libreswan pluto daemon to crash and restart. Continued exploitation would cause a denial of service. The function reassemble_v2_incoming_fragments() would ignore unknown outer payloads but still store these in a fixed size array msg_digest.digest[PAYLIMIT]. An off-by-one error in the assertion PASSERT(logger, md->digest_roof < elemsof(md->digest)) causes the daemon to abort. No remote code execution is possible. Any configuration that allows IKEv2 connections that do not set fragmentation=no are vulnerable. IKEv1 is not affected.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

The Libreswan Project libreswan

Default version status: unaffected

  • 4.6 to ≤ 5.3affected
  • 5.3.1unaffected

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