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Mageia 9 MGASA-2024-0255 Critical: OpenVPN Control Channel Issue

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Calendar Grey July 4, 2024
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Enhanced OpenVPN software in Mageia 9 resolves a vulnerability linked to the control channel signals. Discover additional details here.
Control channel: refuse control channel messages with nonprintable characters in them

Summary

Control channel: refuse control channel messages with nonprintable characters in them. (CVE-2024-5594)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33336

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G2MRELY2ZT6N3PIJHLUCNPCY5GA5EDDU/

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6860-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5594

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory openvpn Mageia control channel nonprintable characters CVE-2024-5594

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/openvpn-2.5.9-1.1.mga9

Severity
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Critical

Publication date: 04 Jul 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0255.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2024-5594

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory openvpn Mageia control channel nonprintable characters CVE-2024-5594

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