Fedora: Security Update For OpenVPN 2.3.16 Critical DoS Issues

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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