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CVE-2005-2533

Date: August 23, 2005

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.

Severity Score

4.0

Related Resources (8)

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

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2533

Url: http://openvpn.net/changelog.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2005-2533

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

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/16463

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/17103

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2005-2533

Severity Score

4.0

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	4.0
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	2.1
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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