Fedora 9 : openvpn-2.1-0.29.rc15.fc9 (2008-10691)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35227

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

2008.11.19 -- Version 2.1_rc15 * Fixed issue introduced in 2.1_rc14 that may cause a segfault when a --plugin module is used. * Added server-side --opt-verify option: clients that connect with options that are incompatible with those of the server will be disconnected (without this option, incompatible clients would trigger a warning message in the server log but would not be disconnected). * Added
--tcp-nodelay option: Macro that sets TCP_NODELAY socket flag on the server as well as pushes it to connecting clients. * Minor options check fix: --no-name-remapping is a server-only option and should therefore generate an error when used on the client. * Added --prng option to control PRNG (pseudo-random number generator) parameters. In previous OpenVPN versions, the PRNG was hard-coded to use the SHA1 hash. Now any OpenSSL hash may be used. This is part of an effort to remove hard-coded references to a specific cipher or cryptographic hash algorithm. * Cleaned up man page synopsis. 2008.11.16 -- Version 2.1_rc14

- Added AC_GNU_SOURCE to configure.ac to enable struct ucred, with the goal of fixing a build issue on Fedora 9 that was introduced in 2.1_rc13. * Added additional method parameter to --script-security to preserve backward compatibility with system() call semantics used in OpenVPN 2.1_rc8 and earlier. To preserve backward compatibility use: script-security 3 system * Added additional warning messages about --script-security 2 or higher being required to execute user-defined scripts or executables. * Windows build system changes: Modified Windows domake-win build system to write all openvpn.nsi input files to gen, so that gen can be disconnected from the rest of the source tree and makensis openvpn.nsi will still function correctly. Added additional SAMPCONF_(CA|CRT|KEY) macros to settings.in (commented out by default). Added optional files SAMPCONF_CONF2 (second sample configuration file) and SAMPCONF_DH (Diffie- Helman parameters) to Windows build system, and may be defined in settings.in. * Extended Management Interface 'bytecount' command to work when OpenVPN is running as a server. Documented Management Interface 'bytecount' command in management/management-notes.txt.
* Fixed informational message in ssl.c to properly indicate deferred authentication.

- Added server-side --auth-user-pass-optional directive, to allow connections by clients that do not specify a username/password, when a user-defined authentication script/module is in place (via --auth-user-pass-verify,
--management-client-auth, or a plugin module). * Changes to easy- rsa/2.0/pkitool and related openssl.cnf:
Calling scripts can set the KEY_NAME environmental variable to set the 'name' X509 subject field in generated certificates. Modified pkitool to allow flexibility in separating the Common Name convention from the cert/key filename convention. For example:
KEY_CN='James's Laptop' KEY_NAME='james' ./pkitool james will create a client certificate/key pair of james.crt/james.key having a Common Name of 'James's Laptop' and a Name of 'james'. * Added
--no-name-remapping option to allow Common Name, X509 Subject, and username strings to include any printable character including space, but excluding control characters such as tab, newline, and carriage-return (this is important for compatibility with external authentication systems). As a related change, added
--status-version 3 format (and 'status 3' in the management interface) which uses the version 2 format except that tabs are used as delimiters instead of commas so that there is no ambiguity when parsing a Common Name that contains a comma. Also, save X509 Subject fields to environment, using the naming convention: X509_{cert_depth}_{name}={value} This is to avoid ambiguities when parsing out the X509 subject string since '/' characters could potentially be used in the common name. * Fixed some ifconfig-pool issues that precluded it from being combined with --server directive. Now, for example, we can configure thusly:
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0 nopool ifconfig-pool 10.8.0.2 10.8.0.99 255.255.255.0 to have ifconfig-pool manage only a subset of the VPN subnet. * Added config file option 'setenv FORWARD_COMPATIBLE 1' to relax config file syntax checking to allow directives for future OpenVPN versions to be ignored. 2008.10.07 -- Version 2.1_rc13 * Bundled OpenSSL 0.9.8i with Windows installer. * Management interface can now listen on a unix domain socket, for example: management /tmp/openvpn unix Also added management-client-user and management-client-group directives to control which processes are allowed to connect to the socket. * Copyright change to OpenVPN Technologies, Inc.
2008.09.23 -- Version 2.1_rc12 * Patched Makefile.am so that the new t_cltsrv-down.sh script becomes part of the tarball (Matthias Andree). * Fixed --lladdr bug introduced in 2.1-rc9 where input validation code was incorrectly expecting the lladdr parameter to be an IP address when it is actually a MAC address (HoverHell).
2008.09.14 -- Version 2.1_rc11 * Fixed a bug that can cause SSL/TLS negotiations in UDP mode to fail if UDP packets are dropped. 2008.09.10 -- Version 2.1_rc10

- Added '--server-bridge' (without parameters) to enable DHCP proxy mode: Configure server mode for ethernet bridging using a DHCP-proxy, where clients talk to the OpenVPN server-side DHCP server to receive their IP address allocation and DNS server addresses. * Added '--route-gateway dhcp', to enable the extraction of the gateway address from a DHCP negotiation with the OpenVPN server-side LAN. * Fixed minor issue with
--redirect-gateway bypass- dhcp or bypass-dns on Windows. If the bypass IP address is 0.0.0.0 or 255.255.255.255, ignore it. * Warn when ethernet bridging that the IP address of the bridge adapter is probably not the same address that the LAN adapter was set to previously. * When running as a server, warn if the LAN network address is the all-popular 192.168.[0|1].x, since this condition commonly leads to subnet conflicts down the road. * Primarily on the client, check for subnet conflicts between the local LAN and the VPN subnet.

- Added a 'netmask' parameter to get_default_gateway, to return the netmask of the adapter containing the default gateway. Only implemented on Windows so far. Other platforms will return 255.255.255.0. Currently the netmask information is only used to warn about subnet conflicts. * Minor fix to cryptoapi.c to not compile itself unless USE_CRYPTO and USE_SSL flags are enabled (Alon Bar-Lev). * Updated openvpn/t_cltsrv.sh (used by 'make check') to conform to new --script-security rules.
Also adds retrying if the addresses are in use (Matthias Andree). * Fixed build issue with ./configure
--disable-socks --disable-http. * Fixed separate compile errors in options.c and ntlm.c that occur on strict C compilers (such as old versions of gcc) that require that C variable declarations occur at the start of a {} block, not in the middle. * Workaround bug in OpenSSL 0.9.6b ASN1_STRING_to_UTF8, which the new implementation of extract_x509_field_ssl depends on. * LZO compression buffer overflow errors will now invalidate the packet rather than trigger a fatal assertion. * Fixed minor compile issue in ntlm.c (mid-block declaration). * Added
--allow-pull-fqdn option which allows client to pull DNS names from server (rather than only IP address) for
--ifconfig, --route, and --route-gateway. OpenVPN versions 2.1_rc7 and earlier allowed DNS names for these options to be pulled and translated to IP addresses by default. Now --allow-pull-fqdn will be explicitly required on the client to enable DNS-name-to-IP-address translation of pulled options.

- 2.1_rc8 and earlier did implicit shell expansion on script arguments since all scripts were called by system(). The security hardening changes made to 2.1_rc9 no longer use system(), but rather use the safer execve or CreateProcess system calls. The security hardening also introduced a backward incompatibility with 2.1_rc8 and earlier in that script parameters were no longer shell-expanded, so for example: client-connect 'docc CLIENT-CONNECT' would fail to work because execve would try to execute a script called 'docc CLIENT-CONNECT' instead of 'docc' with 'CLIENT-CONNECT' as the first argument. This patch fixes the issue, bringing the script argument semantics back to pre 2.1_rc9 behavior in order to preserve backward compatibility while still using execve or CreateProcess to execute the script/executable. * Modified ip_or_dns_addr_safe, which validates pulled DNS names, to more closely conform to RFC 3696: (1) DNS name length must not exceed 255 characters (2) DNS name characters must be limited to alphanumeric, dash ('-'), and dot ('.') * Fixed bug in intra-session TLS key rollover that was introduced with deferred authentication features in 2.1_rc8. 2008.07.31
-- Version 2.1_rc9 * Security Fix -- affects non- Windows OpenVPN clients running OpenVPN 2.1-beta14 through 2.1-rc8 (OpenVPN 2.0.x clients are NOT vulnerable nor are any versions of the OpenVPN server vulnerable). An OpenVPN client connecting to a malicious or compromised server could potentially receive an 'lladdr' or 'iproute' configuration directive from the server which could cause arbitrary code execution on the client. A successful attack requires that (a) the client has agreed to allow the server to push configuration directives to it by including 'pull' or the macro 'client' in its configuration file, (b) the client successfully authenticates the server, (c) the server is malicious or has been compromised and is under the control of the attacker, and (d) the client is running a non-Windows OS. Credit: David Wagner. * Miscellaneous defensive programming changes to multiple areas of the code. In particular, use of the system() call for calling executables such as ifconfig, route, and user-defined scripts has been completely revamped in favor of execve() on unix and CreateProcess() on Windows.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected openvpn package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457667

http://www.nessus.org/u?ba0a9308

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35227

File Name: fedora_2008-10691.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/21/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openvpn, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/21/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/21/2008

Reference Information

BID: 30532

FEDORA: 2008-10691