glsa-201611-02.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201611-02">
  <title>OpenVPN: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OpenVPN, the worst of
    which allows remote attackers to read encrypted traffic.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild"/>
  <announced>2016-11-01</announced>
  <revised>2016-11-01: 1</revised>
  <bug>582902</bug>
  <bug>592070</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/openvpn" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.3.12</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.3.12</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>OpenVPN is a multi-platform, full-featured SSL VPN solution.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenVPN. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker may be able to recover plaintext from encrypted
      communications.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All OpenVPN users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/openvpn-2.3.12"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-6329">CVE-2016-6329</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-09-10T00:38:08Z">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-11-01T13:24:59Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>