CVE-2014-8104 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-8104?

CVE-2014-8104 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 3 Dec 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenVPN 2.x before 2.0.11, 2.1.x, 2.2.x before 2.2.3, and 2.3.x before 2.3.6 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (server crash) via a small control channel packet.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8104?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Mageia Mageia, Opensuse Opensuse, Openvpn Openvpn, Openvpn Openvpn Access Server.

How do I fix CVE-2014-8104?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-8104 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8104 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8104, DLA-98-1, DSA-3084-1, GHSA-p2qj-cw7j-f6wr, MGASA-2014-0512, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8104 and 2 more.