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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3084-1 openvpn -- security update

Date Reported:

01 Dec 2014

Affected Packages:

openvpn

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-8104.

More information:

Dragana Damjanovic discovered that an authenticated client could crash an OpenVPN server by sending a control packet containing less than four bytes as payload.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.1-8+deb7u3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.4-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your openvpn packages.