[SECURITY] [DSA 1045-1] New OpenVPN packages fix arbitrary code execution

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1045-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
April 27th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

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Package : openvpn
Vulnerability : design error
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2006-1629
BugTraq ID : 17392
Debian Bug : 360559

Hendrik Weimer discovered that OpenVPN, the Virtual Private Network
daemon, allows to push environment variables to a client allowing a
malicious VPN server to take over connected clients.

the old stable distribution (woody) does not contain openvpn packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0-1sarge3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your openvpn package.

Upgrade Instructions

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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3.dsc
  Size/MD5 checksum:      631 4b7b2a37e742638edc00b452b3e7dc29
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3.diff.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:    53070 f8a032cd64a2d37f877e1b793997c606
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0.orig.tar.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:   639201 7401faebc6baee9add32608709c54eec

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   347494 059b75282cf82fd3054c434787b8df81

AMD64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_amd64.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   316628 a2d46180b7f72438314ad38326a84af2

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   296770 f246ffba0c98997a90a54b20c504f8b9

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_i386.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   302698 8b40b4ffdce700b3733b87027c9d8ca0

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_ia64.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   395804 e7753416c88c3b8345e69ed857da7617

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_hppa.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   316926 ce6991ede97b0d644eb159d29f0a9a2b

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_m68k.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   276714 6e2321f9bc66e808ce3463d9757ef2a5

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_mips.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   317870 3a05521f53d444a5fc1427f5e49909cb

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_mipsel.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   319716 829deeeaa2ffb3af25b4a4f2a40c835b

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_powerpc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   309084 93acf83128599cf529b3477ff0aa7b68

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_s390.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   307544 e53abb03c1d50b9835653d0afb020fcc

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.0-1sarge3_sparc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   295114 63a22f249484eb71df4e205e211d2054

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.

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Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/&lt;pkg&gt;