ALAS-2017-920

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-12166  

OpenVPN versions before 2.3.3 and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 are vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability when key-method 1 is used, possibly resulting in code execution. (CVE-2017-12166)

ALAS-2017-920


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-920
Advisory Release Date: 2017-11-02 20:19 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-11-03 05:54 Pacific
Severity: Medium
References: CVE-2017-12166 

Issue Overview:

OpenVPN versions before 2.3.3 and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 are vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability when key-method 1 is used, possibly resulting in code execution. (CVE-2017-12166)


Affected Packages:

openvpn


Issue Correction:
Run yum update openvpn to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    openvpn-debuginfo-2.4.4-1.21.amzn1.i686
    openvpn-2.4.4-1.21.amzn1.i686
    openvpn-devel-2.4.4-1.21.amzn1.i686

src:
    openvpn-2.4.4-1.21.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    openvpn-debuginfo-2.4.4-1.21.amzn1.x86_64
    openvpn-devel-2.4.4-1.21.amzn1.x86_64
    openvpn-2.4.4-1.21.amzn1.x86_64