PT-2020-22741 · Openvpn · Openvpn
Published
2020-08-27
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Updated
2020-08-27
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Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
openvpn versions prior to 2.3.9
Description
The issue is related to a heap overflow that occurs when processing the result of getaddrinfo. This is caused by a malformed patch file, openvpn-2.3.9-Fix-heap-overflow-on-getaddrinfo-result.patch, which is ignored by patch(1).
Recommendations
For openvpn version prior to 2.3.9, update to version 2.3.9 or later to resolve the issue.
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Affected Products
Openvpn