Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1045-1 openvpn -- design error
- Date Reported:
- 27 Apr 2006
- Affected Packages:
- openvpn
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 360559.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 17392.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-1629. - More information:
-
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.
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.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.6-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your openvpn package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.