VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-3291

high
Published 2012-06-07 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in OpenConnect 3.18 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service via a crafted greeting banner.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 3.18-1
sid Fixed 3.18-1
forky Fixed 3.18-1
bullseye Fixed 3.18-1
bookworm Fixed 3.18-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
infradeadopenconnect{"endIncluding":"3.17"}
infradeadopenconnect1.00
infradeadopenconnect1.10
infradeadopenconnect1.20
infradeadopenconnect1.30
infradeadopenconnect1.40
infradeadopenconnect2.00
infradeadopenconnect2.01
infradeadopenconnect2.10
infradeadopenconnect2.11
infradeadopenconnect2.12
infradeadopenconnect2.20
infradeadopenconnect2.21
infradeadopenconnect2.22
infradeadopenconnect2.23
infradeadopenconnect2.24
infradeadopenconnect2.25
infradeadopenconnect2.26
infradeadopenconnect3.00
infradeadopenconnect3.01
infradeadopenconnect3.02
infradeadopenconnect3.11
infradeadopenconnect3.12
infradeadopenconnect3.13
infradeadopenconnect3.14
infradeadopenconnect3.15
infradeadopenconnect3.16

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.