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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12: 2017:1635-1 Important OpenVPN DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey June 21, 2017
Dist Suse Esm H88
Significant announcement for SUSE openvpn addresses various severe vulnerabilities including denial of service and interception attacks.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for openvpn fixes the following issues: - Some parts of the certificate-parsing code did not always clear all allocated memory. This would have allowed clients to leak a few bytes of memory for each connection attempt, thereby facilitating a (quite inefficient) DoS attack on the server. [bsc#1044947, CVE-2017-7521] - The ASN1 parsing code contained a bug that could have resulted in some buffers being free()d twice, and this issue could have potentially been triggered remotely by a VPN peer. [bsc#1044947, CVE-2017-7521] - If clients used a HTTP proxy with NTLM authentication, a man-in-the-middle attacker between client and proxy could cause the client to crash or disclose at most 96 bytes of stack memory. The disclosed stack memory was likely to contain the proxy password. If the

References

#1044947

Cross- CVE-2017-7508 CVE-2017-7520 CVE-2017-7521

Affected Products:

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7508.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7520.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7521.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1044947

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:1635-1
Rating: important

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