CVE-2006-1629

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-04-06 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

OpenVPN: 2.0, 2.0.4
OpenVPN Access Server: 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.5

References

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

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