vulnerability
Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2017-7512)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Jul 7, 2017 | Jul 11, 2025 | Nov 27, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 7, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025
Description
A remote denial of service has been found in OpenVPN < 2.4.3. A remote client can exploit a memory leak in the server's certificate parsing code to make it leak a few bytes of memory for each connection attempt, causing it to run out of memory.
Solution
arch-linux-upgrade-latest
References
- CVE-2017-7512
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-7512
- URL-https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1712
- URL-https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-7512
- URL-https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1457997
- URL-https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/VulnerabilitiesFixedInOpenVPN243
- URL-https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2017/06/21/the-openvpn-post-audit-bug-bonanza/
- URL-https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201706-27
- CWE-863
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