Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openvpn  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-OPENVPN-345131
  • published4 Oct 2017
  • disclosed4 Oct 2017

Introduced: 4 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-12166  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openvpn package and not the openvpn package as distributed by Ubuntu.

OpenVPN versions before 2.3.3 and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 are vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability when key-method 1 is used, possibly resulting in code execution.