| Name | CVE-2017-7508 |
| Description | OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to remote denial-of-service when receiving malformed IPv6 packet. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3900-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 865480 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| openvpn (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.3.4-5+deb8u3 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2.4.0-6+deb9u4 | fixed |
| buster | 2.4.7-1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.5.1-3 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 2.6.3-1+deb12u2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.6.12-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[wheezy] - openvpn <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/21/6
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/VulnerabilitiesFixedInOpenVPN243
Fixed by (master): https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/commit/c3f47077a7756de5929094569421a95aa66f2022
Fixed by (2.4.x): https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/commit/ed28cde3d8bf3f1459b2f42f0e27d64801009f92
Fixed by (2.3.x): https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/commit/fc61d1bda112ffc669dbde961fab19f60b3c7439