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Debian DSA-1045-1 : openvpn - design error

high Nessus Plugin ID 22587

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Hendrik Weimer discovered that OpenVPN, the Virtual Private Network daemon, allows to push environment variables to a client allowing a malicious VPN server to take over connected clients.

Solution

Upgrade the openvpn package.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain openvpn packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0-1sarge3.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=360559

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1045

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 22587

File Name: debian_DSA-1045.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:openvpn, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/27/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/5/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1629

BID: 17392

DSA: 1045