| Name | CVE-2018-9336 |
| Description | openvpnserv.exe (aka the interactive service helper) in OpenVPN 2.4.x before 2.4.6 allows a local attacker to cause a double-free of memory by sending a malformed request to the interactive service. This could cause a denial-of-service through memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact including privilege escalation. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| openvpn (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.3.4-5+deb8u3 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2.4.0-6+deb9u4 | fixed |
| buster | 2.4.7-1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.5.1-3 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 2.6.3-1+deb12u2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.6.12-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| openvpn | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- openvpn <not-affected> (Windows specific issue)
https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/commit/1394192b210cb3c6624a7419bcf3ff966742e79b