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openvpn -- potential denial-of-service on servers in TCP mode

Affected packages
2.0	<=	openvpn	<	2.0.4

Details

VuXML ID	3de49331-0dec-422c-93e5-e4719e9869c5
Discovery	2005-11-01
Entry	2005-11-01
Modified	2005-11-04

James Yonan reports:

If the TCP server accept() call returns an error status, the resulting exception handler may attempt to indirect through a NULL pointer, causing a segfault. Affects all OpenVPN 2.0 versions.

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References

CVE Name	CVE-2005-3409
URL	http://openvpn.net/changelog.html