DSA-1045-1 openvpn -- design error

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

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.