SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : openvpn (SUSE-SU-2014:1694-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83652

Synopsis

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

Description

A remote denial of service attack against openvpn was fixed, where a authenticated client cloud stop the server by triggering a server-side ASSERT (CVE-2014-8104),

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2014-120

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2014-120

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907764

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8104/

http://www.nessus.org/u?44845893

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83652

File Name: suse_SU-2014-1694-1.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn-auth-pam-plugin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn-auth-pam-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/23/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8104

BID: 71402