Fedora OpenVPN Critical Legacy Configuration Issue CVE-2017-12166

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.

Maintenance release with several minor upstream bugfixes and a security fix

related to legacy configurations deploying the deprecated `key-method 1`

configuration option

([CVE-2017-12166](openvpn/wiki/CVE-2017-12166))

From this update of, OpenVPN will use the lz4 compression library from Fedora

instead of the upstream bundled library.

[ 1 ] Bug #1497109 - CVE-2017-12166 openvpn: Incorrect bounds check in read_key() with 'key-method 1'

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1497109

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

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