The in-memory certificate cache in strongSwan before 5.9.4 has a remote integer overflow upon receiving many requests with different certificates to fill the cache and later trigger the replacement of cache entries. The code attempts to select a less-often-used cache entry by means of a random number generator, but this is not done correctly. Remote code execution might be a slight possibility.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-10-18T13:44:25

Updated: 2024-08-04T03:22:25.655Z

Reserved: 2021-10-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-41991

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-10-18T14:15:10.333

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:27:02.090

Link: CVE-2021-41991

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-10-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-41991 - Bugzilla