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
#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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