PT-2017-12376

CVE-2017-12166

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Published

2017-10-03

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Updated

2025-03-11

Description by

CVSS 3.1
9.8
Critical
MetricsAV: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.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
Related identifiers
CVE-2017-12166
ALT-PU-2017-2662
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_2839-1
SUSE-SU-2017:3177-1
SUSE-SU-2017_3177-1
USN-7340-1
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