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Debian LTS Advisory ([SECURITY] [DLA 999-1] openvpn security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

6 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

It was discovered that there were multiple out-of-bounds memory read vulnerabilities in openvpn, a popular virtual private network (VPN) daemon. If clients used a HTTP proxy with NTLM authentication, a man-in-the-middle attacker could cause the client to crash or disclose at most 96 bytes of stack memory, likely to contain the proxy password.

Affected Software

Affected Software

openvpn on Debian Linux

Detection Method

Detection Method

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

Solution

Solution

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in openvpn version 2.2.1-8+deb7u5. We recommend that you upgrade your openvpn packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)