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Mageia: 2020-0195 Critical: OpenVPN Data Channel Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey May 5, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2020-0196 tackles a significant OpenSSH flaw, enhancing protection and thwarting unauthorized access attempts.
Updated openvpn packages fix security vulnerability: An issue was discovered in OpenVPN 2.4.x before 2.4.9

Summary

Updated openvpn packages fix security vulnerability:
An issue was discovered in OpenVPN 2.4.x before 2.4.9. An attacker can inject a data channel v2 (P_DATA_V2) packet using a victim's peer-id. Normally such packets are dropped, but if this packet arrives before the data channel crypto parameters have been initialized, the victim's connection will be dropped. This requires careful timing due to the small time window (usually within a few seconds) between the victim client connection starting and the server PUSH_REPLY response back to the client. This attack will only work if Negotiable Cipher Parameters (NCP) is in use (CVE-2020-11810).
The openvpn package has been updated to version 2.4.9, fixing the issue and other bugs. See the upstream release notes for details.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26558

- https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/ChangesInOpenvpn24

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/F6UXS4WUVAGMXRRBWQNUHMT5JZYYW4KW/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11810

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/openvpn-2.4.9-1.mga7

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Publication date: 05 May 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0195.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-11810

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