Fedora 27 : openvpn (2017-5882331351)

high Nessus Plugin ID 105881

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Maintenance release with several minor upstream bugfixes and a security fix related to legacy configurations deploying the deprecated `key-method 1` configuration option ([CVE-2017-12166](https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2017- 12166)). From this update of, OpenVPN will use the lz4 compression library from Fedora instead of the upstream bundled library.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected openvpn package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105881

File Name: fedora_2017-5882331351.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 1/15/2018

Updated: 10/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openvpn, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 10/4/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12166

FEDORA: 2017-5882331351

IAVA: 2017-A-0285-S

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