CVE-2014-8104

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-12-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

OpenVPN 2.x before 2.0.11, 2.1.x, 2.2.x before 2.2.3, and 2.3.x before 2.3.6 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (server crash) via a small control channel packet.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
Mageia: 4.0
Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1, 13.2
OpenVPN: 2.0.1_rc1, 2.0.1_rc2, 2.0.1_rc3, 2.0.1_rc4, 2.0.1_rc5, 2.0.1_rc6 (+118)
OpenVPN Access Server: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.5, 2.0.6 (+3)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0512.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-12/msg00008.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3084
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:139
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2430-1
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/SecurityAnnouncement-97597e732b
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0512.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-12/msg00008.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3084
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:139
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2430-1
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/SecurityAnnouncement-97597e732b

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