USN-2430-1

Dragana Damjanovic discovered that OpenVPN incorrectly handled certain control channel packets. An authenticated attacker could use this issue to cause an OpenVPN server to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / openvpn

Package

Name: openvpn
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/openvpn@2.3.2-7ubuntu3.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.3.2-7ubuntu3.1

Affected versions

2.*

2.3.2-4ubuntu1

2.3.2-5ubuntu1

2.3.2-7ubuntu1

2.3.2-7ubuntu2

2.3.2-7ubuntu3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2.3.2-7ubuntu3.1",
            "binary_name": "openvpn"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2014-8104"
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2430-1.json"