{"cve":"CVE-2008-4551","nvd":{"published":"2008-10-14T20:00:01.637","modified":"2026-06-16T22:58:03.323","status":"Modified","description":"strongSwan 4.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an IKE_SA_INIT message with a large number of NULL values in a Key Exchange payload, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference for the return value of the mpz_export function in the GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP).","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-399"],"references":["http://download.strongswan.org/CHANGES4.txt","http://labs.mudynamics.com/advisories/MU-200809-01.txt","http://secunia.com/advisories/31963","http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31291","http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020903"],"products":["strongswan:strongswan"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:52:44.811608366+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2008-4551","score":0.02517,"percentile":0.84827,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}