CVE-2018-9336 describes a double-free vulnerability in openvpnserv.exe, the interactive service helper in OpenVPN 2.4.x before 2.4.6, affecting OpenVPN and Slackware Linux distributions. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) allows a local attacker to trigger a denial-of-service through memory corruption, with potential for privilege escalation, by sending a malformed request. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 2.4.0, < 2.4.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openvpn:openvpn:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
13.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:13.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
13.37CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:13.37:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
14.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:14.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.