CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-46850

Use After Free

Published: Nov 11, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Use after free in OpenVPN version 2.6.0 to 2.6.6 may lead to undefined behavoir, leaking memory buffers or remote execution when sending network buffers to a remote peer.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openvpn Openvpn 2.6.0 (including) 2.6.6 (including)
Openvpn_access_server Openvpn 2.11.0 (including) 2.11.3 (including)
Openvpn_access_server Openvpn 2.12.0 (including) 2.12.2 (excluding)
Openvpn Ubuntu bionic *
Openvpn Ubuntu lunar *
Openvpn Ubuntu mantic *
Openvpn Ubuntu trusty *
Openvpn Ubuntu upstream *
Openvpn Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References