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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openvpn (SUSE-SU-2020:2359-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 140027

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for openvpn fixes the following issues :

openvpn-2.3.9-Fix-heap-overflow-on-getaddrinfo-result.patch was malformed in a way that caused patch(1) to ignore it. (bsc#959714)

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2020-2359=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=959714

http://www.nessus.org/u?f3857bc3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 140027

File Name: suse_SU-2020-2359-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/28/2020

Updated: 8/28/2020

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn-auth-pam-plugin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn-auth-pam-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:openvpn

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/27/2020