CVE-2014-9221 strongSwan 4.5.x through 5.2.x before 5.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via a crafted
Medium 5.0
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2014-9221 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2014-9221 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 7 Jan 2015.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9221 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Canonical Ubuntu Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-9221/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-9221/index.md)
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2014-9221?
CVE-2014-9221 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 7 Jan 2015.
Official description
strongSwan 4.5.x through 5.2.x before 5.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via a crafted IKEv2 Key Exchange (KE) message with Diffie-Hellman (DH) group 1025.
Weakness: CWE-19
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9221?
It affects 5 products.
Linux distribution packages (3)
strongswan SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 | All versions | 5.1.3-9.1 |
strongswan SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 | All versions | 5.1.3-9.2 |
strongswan SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 | All versions | 5.1.3-9.2 |
Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Opensuse, Strongswan Strongswan.
How do I fix CVE-2014-9221?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2014-9221 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9221 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9221, DSA-3118-1, GHSA-r7v4-h67j-q6qx, SUSE-SU-2015:0281-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9221, USN-2450-1.