Security update for openvpn
Announcement ID: | SUSE-SU-2017:1642-1 |
Rating: | important |
References: | #1044947 |
Affected Products: |
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
Description:
This update for openvpn fixes the following issues:
- It was possible to trigger an assertion by sending a malformed IPv6
packet. That issue could have been abused to remotely shutdown an
openvpn server or client, if IPv6 and --mssfix were enabled and if the
IPv6 networks used inside the VPN were known. [bsc#1044947,
CVE-2017-7508]
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:
zypper in -t patch slessp4-openvpn-13166=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS:
zypper in -t patch slessp3-openvpn-13166=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3:
zypper in -t patch sleposp3-openvpn-13166=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:
zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-openvpn-13166=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3:
zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-openvpn-13166=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):
- openvpn-2.0.9-143.46.1
- openvpn-auth-pam-plugin-2.0.9-143.46.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS (i586 s390x x86_64):
- openvpn-2.0.9-143.46.1
- openvpn-auth-pam-plugin-2.0.9-143.46.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3 (i586):
- openvpn-2.0.9-143.46.1
- openvpn-auth-pam-plugin-2.0.9-143.46.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):
- openvpn-debuginfo-2.0.9-143.46.1
- openvpn-debugsource-2.0.9-143.46.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 (i586 s390x x86_64):
- openvpn-debuginfo-2.0.9-143.46.1
- openvpn-debugsource-2.0.9-143.46.1