CVE-2008-3459 (GCVE-0-2008-3459)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-08-04 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:37
VLAI
Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in OpenVPN 2.1-beta14 through 2.1-rc8, when running on non-Windows systems, allows remote servers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted (1) lladdr and (2) iproute configuration directives, probably related to shell metacharacters.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1111 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2008-07-31 00:00
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