CVE-2005-3409

N/A Unknown

Published: November 02, 2005 Modified: April 16, 2026

Description

OpenVPN 2.x before 2.0.4, when running in TCP mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) by forcing the accept function call to return an error status, which leads to a null dereference in an exception handler.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://openvpn.net/changelog.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/17376

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/17447

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/17452

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/17480

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.osvdb.org/20416

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15270

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://openvpn.net/changelog.html