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Fedora 26 : openvpn (2017-f8a114cd09)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101748

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Updates to the latest upstream OpenVPN 2.4.3, containing security updates for CVE-2017-7508, CVE-2017-7520 and CVE-2017-7521. This update also re-enables automatic restart of OpenVPN on the next updates. For this update, the restart needs to be done manually.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-f8a114cd09

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101748

File Name: fedora_2017-f8a114cd09.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2017

Updated: 12/10/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

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

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openvpn, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/27/2017

Reference Information

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