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Debian: DSA-885-1 Moderate: OpenVPN Several Issues Fixed

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Calendar Grey November 7, 2005
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The OpenVPN software included in Debian packages responds to numerous vital vulnerabilities that necessitate an urgent update to maintain security protections.
Updated package.

Summary


A format string vulnerability has been discovered that could allow
arbitrary code to be executed on the client.

CVE-2005-3409

A NULL pointer dereferencing has been discovered that could be
exploited to crash the service.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain openvpn packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0-1sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.5-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your openvpn package.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configura...

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