CVE-2006-1629 Information

Description

OpenVPN 2.0 through 2.0.5 allows remote malicious servers to execute arbitrary code on the client by using setenv with the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.

Reference

http://openvpn.net/changelog.html http://secunia.com/advisories/19531 http://secunia.com/advisories/19598 http://secunia.com/advisories/19837 http://secunia.com/advisories/19897 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=10093825&forum_id=8482 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1045 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:069 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_28.html http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/security/openvpn-print http://www.osvdb.org/24444 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17392 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1261 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25667