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Ubuntu: USN-6860-1 (CVE-2024-5594): OpenVPN vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-6860-1 (CVE-2024-5594): OpenVPN vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/02/2024
Created
07/03/2024
Added
07/03/2024
Modified
10/23/2024

Description

Reynir Björnsson discovered that OpenVPN incorrectly handled terminating client connections. A remote authenticated client could possibly use this issue to keep the connection active, bypassing certain security policies. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.10, and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-28882)Reynir Björnsson discovered that OpenVPN incorrectly handled certain control channel messages with nonprintable characters. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenVPN to consume resources, or fill up log files with garbage, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2024-5594)

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-openvpn

References

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