CVE-2013-2053 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2013-2053

Buffer overflow in the atodn function in Openswan before 2.6.39,...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

openswan
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 2.6.01, 2.6.02, 2.6.03, 2.6.04, 2.6.05, 2.6.06, 2.6.07, 2.6.08, 2.6.09, 2.6.10, 2.6.11, 2.6.12, 2.6.13, 2.6.14, 2.6.15, 2.6.16, 2.6.17, 2.6.18, 2.6.19, 2.6.20, 2.6.21, 2.6.22, 2.6.23, 2.6.24, 2.6.25, 2.6.26, 2.6.27, 2.6.28, 2.6.29, 2.6.30, 2.6.31, 2.6.32, 2.6.33, 2.6.34, 2.6.35, 2.6.36, 2.6.37

Timeline

Official Publish: July 9th, 2013
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.