Executive Summary

Summary
Title OpenVPN vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3284-1 First vendor Publication 2017-05-11
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2017-05-11
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 :
Cvss Base Score N/A Attack Range N/A
Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 17.04

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in OpenVPN.

Software Description: - openvpn: virtual private network software

Details:

It was discovered that OpenVPN improperly triggered an assert when receiving an oversized control packet in some situations. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (server or client crash). (CVE-2017-7478)

It was discovered that OpenVPN improperly triggered an assert when packet ids rolled over. An authenticated remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (application crash). (CVE-2017-7479)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 17.04:
openvpn 2.4.0-4ubuntu1.2

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3284-1
CVE-2017-7478, CVE-2017-7479

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvpn/2.4.0-4ubuntu1.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3284-1

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Date Informations
2017-05-13 13:24:41
  • Multiple Updates
2017-05-11 17:22:46
  • First insertion