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Debian 9: DSA-4000-2 Severe: OpenSSH Vulnerability Exploits

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Calendar Grey June 27, 2017
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Debian reports several security flaws in openvpn affecting secure communications. Patch immediately for enhanced protection and reliability.
Several issues were discovered in openvpn, a virtual private network application

Summary

CVE-2017-7479

It was discovered that openvpn did not properly handle the
rollover of packet identifiers. This would allow an authenticated
remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service via application
crash.

CVE-2017-7508

Guido Vranken discovered that openvpn did not properly handle
specific malformed IPv6 packets. This would allow a remote
attacker to cause a denial-of-service via application crash.

CVE-2017-7520

Guido Vranken discovered that openvpn did not properly handle
clients connecting to an HTTP proxy with NTLMv2
authentication. This would allow a remote attacker to cause a
denial-of-service via application crash, or potentially leak
sensitive information like the user's proxy password.

CVE-2017-7521

Guido Vranken discovered that openvpn did not properly handle
some x509 extensions. This would allow a remote attacker to cause
a denial-of-service via application crash.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been f...

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Severity
important
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Medium
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Critical

Package: openvpn
CVE ID: CVE-2017-7479 CVE-2017-7508 CVE-2017-7520 CVE-2017-7521

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