Executive Summary

Summary
Title OpenVPN vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2368-1 First vendor Publication 2014-10-02
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2014-10-02
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 2.6 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 4.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

OpenVPN could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Software Description: - openvpn: virtual private network software

Details:

It was discovered that OpenVPN incorrectly handled HMAC comparisons when running in UDP mode. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could possibly be used to perform a plaintext recovery attack.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
openvpn 2.2.1-8ubuntu1.3

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2368-1
CVE-2013-2061

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvpn/2.2.1-8ubuntu1.3

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2368-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-200 Information Exposure

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25725
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25725
Title: SUSE-SU-2013:1783-1 -- Security update for openvpn
Description: OpenVPN used a non-constant-time memcmp in HMAC comparison in openvpn_decrypt that might have allowed remote attackers to gain knowledge of plaintext data. (CVE-2013-2061) Security Issues: * CVE-2013-2061 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2061 >
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): SUSE-SU-2013:1783-1
CVE-2013-2061
Version: 3
Platform(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
Product(s): openvpn
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26572
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26572
Title: USN-2368-1 -- openvpn vulnerability
Description: OpenVPN could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2368-1
CVE-2013-2061
Version: 3
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.04
Product(s): openvpn
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 152
Application 2
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-10-03 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2368-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-823.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-11-29 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_openvpn-131031.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-11-29 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_openvpn-131101.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-11-21 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201311-13.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-04 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2013-201.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-05-28 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-167.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-05-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-7531.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-05-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-7552.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-04-08 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_92f30415993511e2ad4c080027ef73ec.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-10-04 13:29:27
  • Multiple Updates
2014-10-02 21:24:21
  • First insertion