Medium
Security advisory
OpenVPN versions before 2.3.15 and before 2.4.2 are vulnerable to reachable assertion when packet-ID counter rolls over resulting into Denial of Service of server by authenticated attacker.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-7479
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:06 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
OpenVPN versions before 2.3.15 and before 2.4.2 are vulnerable to reachable assertion when packet-ID counter rolls over resulting into Denial of Service of server by authenticated attacker.
osv:CVE-2017-7479
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:02.958399183Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/QuarkslabAndCryptographyEngineerAudits"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 440138,
"published_at": "2017-05-15T18:29:00.34+00:00"
}