USN-3284-1: OpenVPN vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3284-1

11th May, 2017

openvpn vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.04

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in OpenVPN.

Software description

• openvpn
  - virtual private network software
  
  

Details

It was discovered that OpenVPN improperly triggered an assert when
receiving an oversized control packet in some situations. A remote
attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (server or client
crash). ()

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:

Ubuntu 17.04:

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
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CVE-2017-7479