Fedora 40 : openvpn (2024-b611e122fb)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 201065

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-b611e122fb advisory.

Update to upstream OpenVPN 2.6.11 CVE-2024-5594: control channel: refuse control channel messages with nonprintable characters in them CVE-2024-28882: only call schedule_exit() once (on a given peer)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected openvpn package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 201065

File Name: fedora_2024-b611e122fb.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 6/27/2024

Updated: 10/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-5594

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openvpn

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/21/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/20/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-28882, CVE-2024-5594

FEDORA: 2024-b611e122fb

IAVA: 2024-A-0608

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