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Sophos Firewall XG false vulnerability scan on SSL VPN client

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Sophos Firewall XG false vulnerability scan on SSL VPN client 

Applies to the following Sophos product(s) and version(s)
Sophos Firewall

A ssl vulnerability scan on the SSL VPN client may result in false detection's of the following vulnerabilities.

  • CVE-2017-7508 (OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to remote denial-of-service when receiving malformed IPv6 packet)
  • CVE-2017-7520 (OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to denial-of-service and/or possibly sensitive memory leak triggered by man-in-the-middle attacker)
  • CVE-2017-7521 (OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to remote denial-of-service due to memory exhaustion caused by memory leaks and double-free issue in extract_x509_extension())
  • CVE-2017-7522 (OpenVPN versions before 2.4.3 and before 2.3.17 are vulnerable to denial-of-service by authenticated remote attacker via sending a certificate with an embedded NULL character)

Development has stated that we are not vulnerable to this attacks and we have patched the client against these.

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