CVE-2005-3393

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Format string vulnerability in the foreign_option function in options.c for OpenVPN 2.0.x allows remote clients to execu

Format string vulnerability in the foreign_option function in options.c for OpenVPN 2.0.x allows remote clients to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a push of the dhcp-option command option.

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 0.0162

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CVSS base score ≥ 7.0

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Affected Products & Versions

openvpnall versions

openvpn access serverall versions

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Scoring & Timeline

7.5

HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org

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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published to NVD01 Nov 2005 · 12:47 PM

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Vendor Advisories

suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:11128-1

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113081023121059&w=2

http://openvpn.net/changelog.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/17376PatchVendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/17447

http://secunia.com/advisories/17452

http://secunia.com/advisories/17480

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http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-885

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-07.xml

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_25_sr.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/415487

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15239Patch

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2255

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