CVE-2024-5594

Publication date 25 June 2024

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

control channel: refuse control channel messages with nonprintable characters in them. Security scope: a malicious openvpn peer can send garbage to openvpn log, or cause high CPU load

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
openvpn	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 2.6.9-1ubuntu4.1
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 2.6.5-0ubuntu1.2
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.5.9-0ubuntu0.22.04.3
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.4.12-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Needs evaluation

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Patch details

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
openvpn	Upstream: 90e7a85

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6860-1
OpenVPN vulnerabilities
2 July 2024

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5594