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FreeBSD: OpenVPN -- Buffer overflow in PAM authentication and DoS through port sharing

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FreeBSD: OpenVPN -- Buffer overflow in PAM authentication and DoS through port sharing

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/03/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/16/2016
Modified
05/16/2016

Description

Samuli Seppänen reports: OpenVPN 2.3.11 [...] fixes two vulnerabilities: a port-share bug with DoS potential and a buffer overflow by user supplied data when using pam authentication.[...]

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-openvpn
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-openvpn-polarssl

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