CVE-2024-28820 Information

Description

Buffer overflow in the extract_openvpn_cr function in openvpn-cr.c in openvpn-auth-ldap (aka the Three Rings Auth-LDAP plugin for OpenVPN) 2.0.4 allows attackers with a valid LDAP username and who can control the challenge/response password field to pass a string with more than 14 colons into this field and cause a buffer overflow.

Reference

https://github.com/threerings/openvpn-auth-ldap/tags https://github.com/threerings/openvpn-auth-ldap/pull/92