Fedora 24: openvpn Security Update 2017-f426acf49d

May 24, 2017

Security fix for two remote DoS issues (CVE-2017-7478, CVE-2017-7479)

Summary

OpenVPN is a robust and highly flexible tunneling application that uses all

of the encryption, authentication, and certification features of the

OpenSSL library to securely tunnel IP networks over a single UDP or TCP

port. It can use the Marcus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumers LZO library

for compression.

Security fix for two remote DoS issues (CVE-2017-7478, CVE-2017-7479)

[ 1 ] Bug #1450993 - CVE-2017-7478 openvpn: Unauthenticated DoS via large control packets

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1450993

[ 2 ] Bug #1450997 - CVE-2017-7479 openvpn: DoS due to exhaustion of packet-ID counter

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1450997

su -c 'dnf upgrade openvpn' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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FEDORA-2017-f426acf49d 2017-05-23 19:28:29.027411 Product : Fedora 24 Version : 2.3.16 Release : 1.fc24 URL : https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/ Summary : A full-featured SSL VPN solution Description : OpenVPN is a robust and highly flexible tunneling application that uses all of the encryption, authentication, and certification features of the OpenSSL library to securely tunnel IP networks over a single UDP or TCP port. It can use the Marcus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumers LZO library for compression. Security fix for two remote DoS issues (CVE-2017-7478, CVE-2017-7479) [ 1 ] Bug #1450993 - CVE-2017-7478 openvpn: Unauthenticated DoS via large control packets https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1450993 [ 2 ] Bug #1450997 - CVE-2017-7479 openvpn: DoS due to exhaustion of packet-ID counter https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1450997 su -c 'dnf upgrade openvpn' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org