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Alpine: multiple openvpn packages: security update to 2.4.6-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424371

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - openvpnserv.exe (aka the interactive service helper) in OpenVPN 2.4.x before 2.4.6 allows a local attacker
 to cause a double-free of memory by sending a malformed request to the interactive service. This could
 cause a denial-of-service through memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact including
 privilege escalation. (CVE-2018-9336)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-9336

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 424371

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-9336

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/1/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-9336