ALAS-2014-459


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-459
Advisory Release Date: 2014-12-10 13:25 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-12-10 13:27 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

OpenVPN 2.x before 2.0.11, 2.1.x, 2.2.x before 2.2.3, and 2.3.x before 2.3.6 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (server crash) via a small control channel packet.


Affected Packages:

openvpn


Issue Correction:
Run yum update openvpn to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    openvpn-debuginfo-2.3.6-1.12.amzn1.i686
    openvpn-2.3.6-1.12.amzn1.i686

src:
    openvpn-2.3.6-1.12.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    openvpn-debuginfo-2.3.6-1.12.amzn1.x86_64
    openvpn-2.3.6-1.12.amzn1.x86_64