CVE-2006-1629

EPSS 3.6%

openvpn - design error

Published: 4/6/2006Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1629

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 packages (2)

Debian/openvpnfrom 0, < 2.0.6-1
Debian/openvpnfrom 0, < 2.0-1sarge3

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-1629