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CVE-2013-2053
critical
Description
Buffer overflow in the atodn function in Openswan before 2.6.39, when Opportunistic Encryption is enabled and an RSA key is being used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pluto IKE daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted DNS TXT records. NOTE: this might be the same vulnerability as CVE-2013-2052 and CVE-2013-2054.
References
https://www.openswan.org/news/13
https://lists.libreswan.org/pipermail/swan-announce/2013/000003.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960229
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59838
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2893
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0827.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00008.html