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CVE-2011-3380

Published: Nov 17, 2011Updated: Apr 29, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUNVD-CWE-Other
5.0MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
2.4%
Top 18.1%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

Openswan 2.6.29 through 2.6.35 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and pluto IKE daemon crash) via an ISAKMP message with an invalid KEY_LENGTH attribute, which is not properly handled by the error handling function.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LAu:NC:NI:NA:P
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:LAccess Complexity
Low
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:PAvailability
Partial
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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

openswanxelerance
On-prem
Networking Infrastructure / vpn-gateway
Red Hat Enterprise LinuxRed Hat Inc.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
n/an/a
xelerancecommercialNetworking Infrastructureaka openswan
red hat inc.commercialUSOperating Systemsaka red hat

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/46306
secunia.com
http://www.openswan.org/download/CVE-2011-3380/CVE-2011-3380.txt
openswan.org
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1356.html
redhat.com
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Timeline

Published
Nov 17, 2011
Last Updated
Apr 29, 2026

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