CVE-2005-3393 (GCVE-0-2005-3393)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-11-01 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 23:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15239 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/415487 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_OPENPKG |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/17452 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
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| http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-885 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
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Date Public
2005-10-31 00:00
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"url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-885"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-07.xml"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_25_sr.html"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/415487"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"tags": [
"Patch"
],
"url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15239"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2255"
}
],
"sourceIdentifier": "cve@mitre.org",
"vulnStatus": "Modified",
"weaknesses": [
{
"description": [
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "NVD-CWE-Other"
}
],
"source": "nvd@nist.gov",
"type": "Primary"
}
]
}
},
"suse_vex": {
"aggregate_severity": "moderate",
"current_release_date": "2026-08-27T02:20:11Z",
"cve": "CVE-2005-3393",
"id": "CVE-2005-3393",
"initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T06:17:04Z",
"product_status:known_not_affected": "60",
"product_status:recommended": "16",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2005-3393",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2005-3393.json",
"version": "13"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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