GHSA-v79r-cp4c-r8xrHighCVSS 7.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovpn: fix NULL dereference...

Published
August 27, 2026
Last Modified
August 27, 2026

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📋 Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ovpn: fix NULL dereference when killing missing key

ovpn_crypto_kill_key assumes both crypto slots are populated and dereferences each slot before checking it. That is not guaranteed: a peer can have only one installed key, and the kill path may be asked to remove a key that is not present.

Read each slot once while holding the crypto state lock, check for NULL before looking at key_id, and only replace the slot that actually matches.

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