OpenVPN security fix package released

Bug #1699716 reported by Karsten W. Rohrbach
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Bug Description

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/VulnerabilitiesFixedInOpenVPN243

There are new packages available for 2.4.x and 2.3.x as of 2017-06-21

CVE-2017-7508 Remotely-triggerable ASSERT() on malformed IPv6 packet

CVE-2017-7520 Pre-authentication remote crash/information disclosure for clients

CVE-2017-7521 Potential double-free in --x509-alt-username

CVE-2017-7512 Remote-triggerable memory leaks

CVE-2017-7522 Post-authentication remote DoS when using the --x509-track option

Plus several other minor fixes without CVE references.

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Tyler Hicks (tyhicks) wrote :

Security updates have been issued. See the following USN for details:

  https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3339-1/

Note that Ubuntu is not affected by CVE-2017-7522 because we build against OpenSSL.

information type: Private Security → Public Security
Changed in openvpn (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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