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Fedora 23 FEDORA-2016-0fb6577f07 High: Vtun Performance Fix

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Calendar Grey April 5, 2016
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This formal announcement details a crucial update for vtun in Fedora 23, enhancing both efficiency and protective measures.
patch to fix #1319858,#1319859,#1319861

Summary

VTun provides a method for creating Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks

and allows one to shape, compress, and encrypt traffic in those tunnels.

Supported types of tunnels are: PPP, IP, Ethernet and most other serial

protocols and programs.

VTun is easily and highly configurable: it can be used for various

network tasks like VPN, Mobile IP, Shaped Internet access, IP address

saving, etc. It is completely a user space implementation and does not

require modification to any kernel parts.

Update Information:

patch to fix #1319858,#1319859,#1319861

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity Fedora performance fix TCP/IP vtun network tunnel

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1319858 - vtun: high CPU usage after SIGHUP https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1319858

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update vtun' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: vtun
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 3.0.3
Release: 15.fc23
URL:
Summary: Virtual tunnel over TCP/IP networks

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity Fedora performance fix TCP/IP vtun network tunnel

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