CVE-2012-6128

medium
Published 2013-02-24 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in http.c in OpenConnect before 4.08 allow remote VPN gateways to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long (1) hostname, (2) path, or (3) cookie list in a response.

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

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed3.20-3
debian debianbullseyefixed3.20-3
debian debianforkyfixed3.20-3
debian debiansidfixed3.20-3
debian debiantrixiefixed3.20-3

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
infradeadopenconnect{"endIncluding":"4.07"}
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
infradeadopenconnect3.17
infradeadopenconnect3.18
infradeadopenconnect3.19
infradeadopenconnect3.20
infradeadopenconnect3.99
infradeadopenconnect4.00
infradeadopenconnect4.01
infradeadopenconnect4.02
infradeadopenconnect4.03
infradeadopenconnect4.04
infradeadopenconnect4.05
infradeadopenconnect4.06

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.