CVE-2017-7521
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-06-27 13:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:04
Severity ?
Summary
OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to remote denial-of-service due to memory exhaustion caused by memory leaks and double-free issue in extract_x509_extension().
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3900
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99230Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038768
secalert@redhat.comhttps://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/VulnerabilitiesFixedInOpenVPN243Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3900
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99230Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038768
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/VulnerabilitiesFixedInOpenVPN243Vendor Advisory
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