PT-2017-12376 · Openvpn+3 · Openvpn+3

Published 2017-10-03 · Updated 2025-03-11 · CVE-2017-12166

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenVPN versions prior to 2.3.18 OpenVPN versions 2.4.x prior to 2.4.4

Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow vulnerability that can occur when key-method 1 is used, potentially leading to code execution.

Recommendations For OpenVPN versions prior to 2.3.18, update to version 2.3.18 or later. For OpenVPN versions 2.4.x prior to 2.4.4, update to version 2.4.4 or later.

Fix

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2662

CVE-2017-12166

DLA-2992-1

MGASA-2017-0372

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_2892-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11128-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2838-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2839-1

SUSE-SU-2017:3177-1

SUSE-SU-2017_2839-1

SUSE-SU-2017_3177-1

USN-7340-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Openvpn

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 66

• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2022-01642 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15078 · Security Note
• https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2017-12166 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-0547 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12166 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/openvpn · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2021-02221 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-2992-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-11810 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-7340-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0372 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:3177-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12166 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-12166 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-5594 · Vendor Advisory