CVE-2008-3459

NameCVE-2008-3459
DescriptionUnspecified 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs493488

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
openvpn (PTS)bullseye2.5.1-3fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)2.6.3-1+deb12u2fixed
sid, trixie2.6.12-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
openvpnsourceetch(not affected)
openvpnsource(unstable)2.1~rc9-1low493488

Notes

pull/push needs to be allowed, successful authentication, compromised or malicious server
[etch] - openvpn <not-affected> (Upstream states that the 2.0.x versions are unaffected)

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