It was discovered that OpenVPN improperly triggered an assert when receiving an oversized control packet in some situations. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (server or client crash) (CVE-2017-7478). It was discovered that OpenVPN improperly triggered an assert when packet ids rolled over. An authenticated remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (application crash) (CVE-2017-7479).