Bug 1217275 (CVE-2023-46850)

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2023-46850: openvpn: Incorrect use of send buffer can cause memory to be sent to peer
Product: [Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents Reporter: SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component: IncidentsAssignee: Security Team bot <security-team>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: gianluca.gabrielli
Version: unspecified   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/384599/
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Description SMASH SMASH 2023-11-17 09:17:46 UTC
Use after free in OpenVPN version 2.6.0 to 2.6.6 may lead to undefined behavoir, leaking memory buffers or remote execution when sending network buffers to a remote peer.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-46850
Comment 2 Mohd Saquib 2023-11-17 12:11:17 UTC
Well, I've updated the latest version in Factory and submit requests to latest version in ALP and SLE-15-SP6. So yeah no packages are affected by this.