USN-6860-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2024-5594)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2024-07-02 13:44 – Updated: 2026-02-10 04:44 – Source website
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openvpn vulnerabilities
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Reynir Björnsson discovered that OpenVPN incorrectly handled terminating client connections. A remote authenticated client could possibly use this issue to keep the connection active, bypassing certain security policies. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10, and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-28882)

Reynir Björnsson discovered that OpenVPN incorrectly handled certain control channel messages with nonprintable characters. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenVPN to consume resources, or fill up log files with garbage, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2024-5594)

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