CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-5198

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jan 15, 2025 | Modified: Jan 15, 2025

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5198
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

OpenVPN ovpn-dco for Windows version 1.1.1 allows an unprivileged local attacker to send I/O control messages with invalid data to the driver resulting in a NULL pointer dereference leading to a system halt.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Potential Mitigations

References

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2024-5198

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