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Fedora 24 NetworkManager-strongswan Security Advisory: Critical Update

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Calendar Grey April 2, 2016
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Significant enhancement for Fedora 24's NetworkManager-openvpn bolsters security and optimizes VPN functionalities.
Update to NetworkManager 1.2-beta3

Summary

This package contains software for integrating the strongSwan IPSec VPN

with NetworkManager.

Update Information:

Update to NetworkManager 1.2-beta3. Upstream release announcement: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2016-March/msg00164.html

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora critical update NetworkManager strongSwan vpn integration

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #756418 - CVE-2006-7246 NetworkManager, wpa_supplicant (WPA-Enterprise): Verify that the certificate is from trusted CA and matches the specified subject https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=756418

Update Instructions

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

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Name: NetworkManager-strongswan
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 1.3.1
Release: 3.20160330libnm.fc24
URL: https://www.strongswan.org/
Summary: NetworkManager strongSwan IPSec VPN plug-in

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora critical update NetworkManager strongSwan vpn integration

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