CVE-2018-9336

Summary

CVECVE-2018-9336
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-05-01 18:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-06-13 14:27:00 UTC
Descriptionopenvpnserv.exe (aka the interactive service helper) in OpenVPN 2.4.x before 2.4.6 allows a local attacker to cause a double-free of memory by sending a malformed request to the interactive service. This could cause a denial-of-service through memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact including privilege escalation.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-415

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openvpn Openvpn All All All All
Application Openvpn Openvpn All All All All
Operating System Slackware Slackware Linux 13.0 All All All
Operating System Slackware Slackware Linux 13.1 All All All
Operating System Slackware Slackware Linux 13.37 All All All
Operating System Slackware Slackware Linux 14.0 All All All
Operating System Slackware Slackware Linux 14.1 All All All
Operating System Slackware Slackware Linux 13.0 All All All
Operating System Slackware Slackware Linux 13.1 All All All
Operating System Slackware Slackware Linux 13.37 All All All
Operating System Slackware Slackware Linux 14.0 All All All
Operating System Slackware Slackware Linux 14.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Release OpenVPN v2.4.6 release · OpenVPN/openvpn · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware Security Advisories SLACKWARE www.slackware.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
ChangesInOpenvpn24 – OpenVPN Community CONFIRM community.openvpn.net Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
[R1] OpenVPN Windows Service Double Free - Research Advisory | Tenable® MISC www.tenable.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Fix potential double-free() in Interactive Service (CVE-2018-9336) · OpenVPN/openvpn@1394192 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500503 Alpine Linux Security Update for Open Virtual Private Network (OpenVPN)
  • 500571 Alpine Linux Security Update for Open Virtual Private Network (OpenVPN)
  • 500770 Alpine Linux Security Update for openvpn
  • 501170 Alpine Linux Security Update for openvpn
  • 504260 Alpine Linux Security Update for openvpn
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