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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-46850: Use After Free

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-46850: Use After Free

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
11/11/2023
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

Use after free in OpenVPN version 2.6.0 to 2.6.6 may lead to undefined behavoir, leaking memory buffers or remote execution when sending network buffers to a remote peer.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-openvpn

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