Alpine: openvpn: security update to 2.3.15-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 406178

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- OpenVPN version 2.3.12 and newer is vulnerable to unauthenticated Denial of Service of server via received
large control packet. Note that this issue is fixed in 2.3.15 and 2.4.2. (CVE-2017-7478)

- OpenVPN versions before 2.3.15 and before 2.4.2 are vulnerable to reachable assertion when packet-ID
counter rolls over resulting into Denial of Service of server by authenticated attacker. (CVE-2017-7479)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 406178

Version: Revision 1.24

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 3/13/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7478

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7478, CVE-2017-7479

BID: 98443, 98444

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