openvpn: Format string vulnerability in config parsing code

Debian Bug report logs - #336751
openvpn: Format string vulnerability in config parsing code

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: openvpn: Format string vulnerability in config parsing code

Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:09:23 +0100

Package: openvpn
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole

A format string vulnerability has been found in openvpn's option parsing
code, which indirectly may be exploited remotely as well. Please see
http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2005/10/msg00393.html 
for more information.

Cheers,
        Moritz

-- System Information:
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Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-1-686
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Message #10 received at 336751@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>

To: 336751@bugs.debian.org

Subject: CVE assignment

Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:31:39 +0100

Hi,
this has been assigned CVE-2005-3393, please mention so in the changelog
when fixing this.

Cheers,
        Moritz

Message #15 received at 336751@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <336751@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: openvpn: OpenVPN 2.0.4 Released -- Note security fixes

Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 09:53:50 +0100

Package: openvpn
Version: 2.0.2-2
Followup-For: Bug #336751


OpenVPN 2.0.4 Released -- Note security fixes

This release contains fixes for two security issues that just came to my
attention over the past 24 hours, which affect OpenVPN 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2,
and the 2.1 beta series.  OpenVPN 1.x is not affected.

So, 2.0.4 is released...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages openvpn depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.58     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  liblzo1                       1.08-2     data compression library
ii  libssl0.9.7                   0.9.7g-5   SSL shared libraries

openvpn recommends no packages.

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Message #20 received at 336751@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>

To: 336751@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#336751: openvpn: OpenVPN 2.0.4 Released -- Note security fixes

Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:54:17 +0100

Packages for Sarge, until they get released by the security team may by
found at:

http://etc.inittab.org/~agi/

Packages for sid/testing will be uploaded RSN.

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Message #25 received at 336751@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>

To: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>

Cc: Debian Bug Tracking System <336751@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#336751: openvpn: Format string vulnerability in config parsing code

Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 09:21:40 +0100

Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Package: openvpn
> Severity: grave
> Tags: security
> Justification: user security hole
> 
> A format string vulnerability has been found in openvpn's option parsing
> code, which indirectly may be exploited remotely as well. Please see
> http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2005/10/msg00393.html 
> for more information.

This is CVE-2005-3393.

Regards,

	Joey

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Message #30 received at 336751-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>

To: 336751-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#336751: fixed in openvpn 2.0.5-1

Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:02:09 -0800

Source: openvpn
Source-Version: 2.0.5-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
openvpn, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

openvpn_2.0.5-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0.5-1.diff.gz
openvpn_2.0.5-1.dsc
  to pool/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0.5-1.dsc
openvpn_2.0.5-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0.5-1_i386.deb
openvpn_2.0.5.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0.5.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 336751@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org> (supplier of updated openvpn package)

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Date: Mon,  7 Nov 2005 10:13:55 +0100
Source: openvpn
Binary: openvpn
Architecture: source i386
Version: 2.0.5-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>
Changed-By: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>
Description: 
 openvpn    - Virtual Private Network daemon
Closes: 336751 337334
Changes: 
 openvpn (2.0.5-1) unstable; urgency=high
 .
   * New upstream release. Urgency high due to security issues.
       - DoS vulnerability on the server in TCP mode.
         (CVE-2005-3409) (Closes: #337334)
       - Format string vulnerability in the foreign_option
         function in options.c could potentially allow a malicious
         or compromised server to execute arbitrary code on the
         client.  (CVE-2005-3393) (Closes: #336751)
Files: 
 04f23b07dcce1188a10c0232746f7ec4 623 net optional openvpn_2.0.5-1.dsc
 4bd7a42991c93db23842a0992debe53b 662647 net optional openvpn_2.0.5.orig.tar.gz
 3e0467bc6ce587a7a69000b97e418fb9 58027 net optional openvpn_2.0.5-1.diff.gz
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