Double-Free Memory Vulnerability in OpenVPN 2.4.x before 2.4.6

Double-Free Memory Vulnerability in OpenVPN 2.4.x before 2.4.6

CVE-2018-9336 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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