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Ubuntu: USN-4565-1 (CVE-2019-16239): OpenConnect vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4565-1 (CVE-2019-16239): OpenConnect vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/17/2019
Created
10/08/2020
Added
10/06/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

process_http_response in OpenConnect before 8.05 has a Buffer Overflow when a malicious server uses HTTP chunked encoding with crafted chunk sizes.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libopenconnect5
  • ubuntu-upgrade-openconnect

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