FKIE_CVE-2024-5198

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-01-15 13:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:15
Severity
3.3 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
OpenVPN ovpn-dco for Windows version 1.1.1 allows an unprivileged local attacker to send I/O control messages with invalid data to the driver resulting in a NULL pointer dereference leading to a system halt.
References
security@openvpn.nethttps://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-5198Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
openvpn ovpn-dco-win 1.1.1
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