CVE-2017-12166

CRITICAL9.8EPSS 1.00%

openvpn - security update

Published: 10/4/2017Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2017-12166

Description

OpenVPN versions before 2.3.3 and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 are vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability when key-method 1 is used, possibly resulting in code execution.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/openvpnfrom 0, < 2.4.4-1
Debian/openvpnfrom 0, < 2.4.0-6+deb9u4

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12166