CVE-2024-5594

Publication date 25 June 2024

Last updated 11 March 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

OpenVPN before 2.6.11 does not santize PUSH_REPLY messages properly which attackers can use to inject unexpected arbitrary data into third-party executables or plug-ins.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
openvpn 24.10 oracular
Fixed 2.6.11-1ubuntu1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2.6.9-1ubuntu4.1
23.10 mantic
Fixed 2.6.5-0ubuntu1.2
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.5.9-0ubuntu0.22.04.3
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.4.12-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
openvpn

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