VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-2053

medium
Published 2013-07-09 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
xeleranceopenswan{"endIncluding":"2.6.38"}
xeleranceopenswan2.6.01
xeleranceopenswan2.6.02
xeleranceopenswan2.6.03
xeleranceopenswan2.6.04
xeleranceopenswan2.6.05
xeleranceopenswan2.6.06
xeleranceopenswan2.6.07
xeleranceopenswan2.6.08
xeleranceopenswan2.6.09
xeleranceopenswan2.6.10
xeleranceopenswan2.6.11
xeleranceopenswan2.6.12
xeleranceopenswan2.6.13
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xeleranceopenswan2.6.21
xeleranceopenswan2.6.22
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xeleranceopenswan2.6.24
xeleranceopenswan2.6.25
xeleranceopenswan2.6.26
xeleranceopenswan2.6.27
xeleranceopenswan2.6.28
xeleranceopenswan2.6.29
xeleranceopenswan2.6.30
xeleranceopenswan2.6.31
xeleranceopenswan2.6.32
xeleranceopenswan2.6.33
xeleranceopenswan2.6.34
xeleranceopenswan2.6.35
xeleranceopenswan2.6.36
xeleranceopenswan2.6.37

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.