CVE-2013-4564
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.7%EU EUVD
Libreswan 3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a small length value and (1) no version or (2) an invalid major number in an IKE packet.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 2.7% (86th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-4422)
- Published
- January 7, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-4422 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- libreswan / libreswan
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124911.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124928.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124943.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56276(Vendor Advisory)
- https://libreswan.org/security/CVE-2013-4564/CVE-2013-4564.txt.asc(Vendor Advisory)
- https://lists.libreswan.org/pipermail/swan-announce/2013/000007.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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