CVE-2005-2533

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Source

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

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2005-2533.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2005-2533

Downstream

DEBIAN-CVE-2005-2533

DSA-851-1

Published

2005-08-24T04:00:00Z

Modified

2025-08-09T19:01:27Z

Summary

[none]

Details

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://secunia.com/advisories/16463
http://secunia.com/advisories/17103
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-851
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:145
http://openvpn.net/changelog.html

CVE-2005-2533

Affected packages