openSUSE Security Update: Security update for openvpn ______________________________________________________________________________

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:1638-1 Rating: important References: #1038709 #1038711 #1038713 #995374 Cross-References: CVE-2016-6329 CVE-2017-7478 CVE-2017-7479

Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2 ______________________________________________________________________________

An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Description:

This update for openvpn fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2016-6329: Show which ciphers should no longer be used in openvpn --show-ciphers (bsc#995374) - CVE-2017-7478: openvpn: Authenticated user can DoS server by using a big payload in P_CONTROL (bsc#1038709) - CVE-2017-7479: openvpn: Denial of Service due to Exhaustion of Packet-ID counter (bsc#1038711) - Hardening measures found by internal audit (bsc#1038713)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-717=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List:

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

openvpn-2.3.8-8.6.1 openvpn-auth-pam-plugin-2.3.8-8.6.1 openvpn-auth-pam-plugin-debuginfo-2.3.8-8.6.1 openvpn-debuginfo-2.3.8-8.6.1 openvpn-debugsource-2.3.8-8.6.1 openvpn-devel-2.3.8-8.6.1 openvpn-down-root-plugin-2.3.8-8.6.1 openvpn-down-root-plugin-debuginfo-2.3.8-8.6.1

References:

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6329.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7478.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7479.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/1038709 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1038711 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1038713 https://bugzilla.suse.com/995374