CVE-2005-2533

medium

Description

OpenVPN before 2.0.1, when running in "dev tap" Ethernet bridging mode, allows remote authenticated clients to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a flood of packets with a large number of spoofed MAC addresses.

References

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:145

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-851

http://secunia.com/advisories/17103

http://secunia.com/advisories/16463

http://openvpn.net/changelog.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-08-24

Updated: 2008-09-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium