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openfortivpn — security advisory
An issue was discovered in openfortivpn 1.11.0 when used with OpenSSL 1.0.2 or later. tunnel.c mishandles certificate validation because the hostname check operates on uninitialized memory. The outcome is that a valid certificate is never accepted (only a malformed certificate may be accepted).
- Products
- openfortivpn
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.12.0-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-7042
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:16 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in openfortivpn 1.11.0 when used with OpenSSL 1.0.2 or later. tunnel.c mishandles certificate validation because the hostname check operates on uninitialized memory. The outcome is that a valid certificate is never accepted (only a malformed certificate may be accepted).
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-7042
openfortivpn
Fixed versions: 1.12.0-1
openfortivpn
Fixed versions: 1.12.0-1
openfortivpn
Fixed versions: 1.12.0-1
Complete source record
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