CVE-2005-0162: Openswan

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the get_internal_addresses function in the pluto application for Openswan 1.x before 1.0.9, and Openswan 2.x before 2.3.0, when compiled with XAUTH and PAM enabled, allows remote authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

• Openswan Openswan: up to and including 1.0.9
• Xelerance Openswan: version 2.3.0 only

Published 2005-01-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.