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SUSE: 2017:1718-1 Important: openvpn Memory Leak and DoS Fixes

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Calendar Grey June 29, 2017
Dist Suse Esm H88
Patch for openvpn-openssl1 addresses urgent vulnerabilities in SUSE: 2017:1718-2 notice specifics.
An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata is ...

Summary

This update for openvpn-openssl1 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

#1038709 #1038711 #1038713 #1044947 #959511

#988522

Cross- CVE-2017-7478 CVE-2017-7479 CVE-2017-7508

CVE-2017-7520 CVE-2017-7521

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SECURITY

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7478.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7479.html

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/1038709

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1038711

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1038713

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1044947

https://bugzilla.suse.com/959511

https://bugzilla.suse.com/988522

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:1718-1
Rating: important

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