CVE-2023-6247 (GCVE-0-2023-6247)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-20 18:43
Modified
2024-10-28 00:05
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Summary
The PKCS#7 parser in OpenVPN 3 Core Library versions through 3.8.3 did not properly validate the parsed data, which would result in the application crashing.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
OpenVPN OpenVPN 3 Core Library Version: 3.0
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