Description
OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to remote denial-of-service when receiving malformed IPv6 packet.
Published: 2017-06-27
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3900-1 openvpn security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-16525 OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to remote denial-of-service when receiving malformed IPv6 packet.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3339-1 OpenVPN vulnerabilities
History

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.01068}

epss

{'score': 0.01521}


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References

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:04:11.917Z

Reserved: 2017-04-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-7508

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-06-27T13:29:00.177

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-7508

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-06-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-7508 - Bugzilla

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