Date: 28 April 2006
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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2006.0302 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian]
New OpenVPN packages fix arbitrary code execution
28 April 2006
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: openvpn
Publisher: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Impact: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands
Access: Remote/Unauthenticated
CVE Names: CVE-2006-1629
Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1045
Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on
platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators
running openvpn check for an updated version of the software for
their operating system.
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1045-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
April 27th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : openvpn
Vulnerability : design error
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2006-1629
BugTraq ID : 17392
Debian Bug : 360559
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.
Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 631 4b7b2a37e742638edc00b452b3e7dc29
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 53070 f8a032cd64a2d37f877e1b793997c606
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 639201 7401faebc6baee9add32608709c54eec
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 347494 059b75282cf82fd3054c434787b8df81
AMD64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 316628 a2d46180b7f72438314ad38326a84af2
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 296770 f246ffba0c98997a90a54b20c504f8b9
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 302698 8b40b4ffdce700b3733b87027c9d8ca0
Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 395804 e7753416c88c3b8345e69ed857da7617
HP Precision architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 316926 ce6991ede97b0d644eb159d29f0a9a2b
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 276714 6e2321f9bc66e808ce3463d9757ef2a5
Big endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 317870 3a05521f53d444a5fc1427f5e49909cb
Little endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 319716 829deeeaa2ffb3af25b4a4f2a40c835b
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 309084 93acf83128599cf529b3477ff0aa7b68
IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 307544 e53abb03c1d50b9835653d0afb020fcc
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 295114 63a22f249484eb71df4e205e211d2054
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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