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A new version of OpenVPN-NL (2.3.9-nl3) is available on the OpenVPN-NL website [1]. This version is based on OpenVPN 2.3.9 [2], and PolarSSL 1.2.19 [3].

This new version of OpenVPN-NL includes two security fixes:

1) Post-authentication client-to-server denial-of-service A fully authenticated client can send a specially crafted packet to the OpenVPN server, causing the server to crash. An attacker needs a valid certificate, and - if it is in use - a valid tls-auth key to mount this attack. Only servers that have enabled IPv6 inside the tunnel are affected (e.g. through the --server-ipv6, - --ifconfig-ipv6-pool, --ifconfig-ipv6-push or --iroute-ipv6 options).

2) Pre-authentication remote crash/information disclosure for clients If clients use a HTTP proxy with NTLM authentication (i.e. "--http-proxy <server> <port> [<authfile>|'auto'|'auto-nct'] ntlm2"), a man-in-the-middle attacker between the client and the proxy can cause the client to crash or disclose at most 96 bytes of stack memory. The disclosed stack memory is likely to contain the proxy password.

If the proxy password is not reused, this is unlikely to compromise the security of the OpenVPN tunnel itself. Clients who do not use the --http-proxy option with ntlm2 authentication are not affected.

This release removes the --http-proxy NTLM authentication methods to remove the vulnerability. NTLM authentication will be re-added once we have regained confidence in the quality of the NTLM authentication module code.

Furthermore, this release force-disables MD5 digests for certificates. This is a hardening measure that prevents accidental misconfiguration where the Certificate Authority may issue certificates with MD5 digests.

Users are advised to upgrade all OpenVPN-NL servers to 2.3.9-nl3, and upgrade clients if the vulnerable HTTP proxy with ntlm2 authentication is used.

More information on the vulnerabilities can be found at [4].

References - ---------- [1] https://openvpn.fox-it.com/ [2] https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/ChangesInOpenvpn23 [3] https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/releases/mbedtls-2.2.1-2.1.4-1.3.16-an d-polarssl.1.2.19-released [4] https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/VulnerabilitiesFixedInOpenVPN 243