cve-2008-3459
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-08-04 19:00
Modified
2024-08-07 09:37
Severity ?
Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in OpenVPN 2.1-beta14 through 2.1-rc8, when running on non-Windows systems, allows remote servers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted (1) lladdr and (2) iproute configuration directives, probably related to shell metacharacters.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/change-log/changelog-21.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30532
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020626
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2316Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44209
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/change-log/changelog-21.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30532
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020626
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2316Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44209
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