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FreeBSD Ports: openvpn-devel

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

FreeBSD Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.6

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

7 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.

Insight

Insight

The following package is affected: openvpn-devel CVE-2008-3459 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.

Solution

Solution

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/change-log/changelog-21.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/c61ca9cb-64c3-11dd-954d-006097bcc5f4.html

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