Alpine: multiple openvpn packages: security update to 2.4.2-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400840

Description

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

- OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to remote denial-of-service when receiving
malformed IPv6 packet. (CVE-2017-7508)

- OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to denial-of-service and/or possibly
sensitive memory leak triggered by man-in-the-middle attacker. (CVE-2017-7520)

- OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to remote denial-of-service due to memory
exhaustion caused by memory leaks and double-free issue in extract_x509_extension(). (CVE-2017-7521)

- OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to denial-of-service by authenticated
remote attacker via sending a certificate with an embedded NULL character. (CVE-2017-7522)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400840

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7520

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/23/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/21/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7508, CVE-2017-7520, CVE-2017-7521, CVE-2017-7522

BID: 99230

IAVA: 2017-A-0190-S

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