CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-1629
9.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-04-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
OpenVPN 2.0 through 2.0.5 allows remote malicious servers to execute arbitrary code on the client by using setenv with the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
Affected configurations
• openvpn openvpn 2.0
• openvpn openvpn 2.0.4
• openvpn openvpn access server 2.0.1
• openvpn openvpn access server 2.0.2
• openvpn openvpn access server 2.0.3
• openvpn openvpn access server 2.0.5
References
- http://openvpn.net/changelog.html Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19531 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19598 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19837 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19897 secunia.com
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=10093825&forum_id=8482 sourceforge.net
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1045 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:069 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_28.html www.novell.com
- http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/security/openvpn-print www.osreviews.net
- http://www.osvdb.org/24444 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17392 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1261 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25667 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://openvpn.net/changelog.html Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19531 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19598 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19837 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19897 secunia.com
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=10093825&forum_id=8482 sourceforge.net
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1045 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:069 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_28.html www.novell.com
- http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/security/openvpn-print www.osreviews.net
- http://www.osvdb.org/24444 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17392 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1261 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25667 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com