Advisories » MGASA-2021-0302

Updated openvpn packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 29 Jun 2021
Modification date: 29 Jun 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7 , 8
CVE: CVE-2020-15078

Description

OpenVPN 2.5.1 and earlier versions allows a remote attackers to bypass
authentication and access control channel data on servers configured with
deferred authentication, which can be used to potentially trigger further
information leaks (CVE-2020-15078).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29007
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4933-1
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/GJUXEYHUPREEBPX23VPEKMFXUPVO3PMU/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15078

SRPMS

7/core

• openvpn-2.4.9-1.1.mga7

8/core

• openvpn-2.5.0-2.1.mga8