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Fedora 26: FEDORA-2017-f8a114cd09 moderate: OpenVPN Security Issues

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Calendar Grey June 24, 2017
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OpenVPN 2.4.3 security patch released for Fedora 26 resolving various vulnerabilities. User intervention needed to restart service post-installation.
Updates to the latest upstream OpenVPN 2.4.3, containing security updates for CVE-2017-7508, CVE-2017-7520 and CVE-2017-7521

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.

Updates to the latest upstream OpenVPN 2.4.3, containing security updates for

CVE-2017-7508, CVE-2017-7520 and CVE-2017-7521. This update also re-enables

automatic restart of OpenVPN on the next updates. For this update, the restart

needs to be done manually.

[ 1 ] Bug #1463643 - CVE-2017-7508 CVE-2017-7520 CVE-2017-7521 CVE-2017-7522 openvpn: Multiple security issues fixed in OpenVPN 2.4.3 and 2.3.17 [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1463643

[ 2 ] Bug #1463647 - openvpn-2.4.3 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1463647

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

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 26
Version: 2.4.3
Release: 1.fc26
URL:
Summary: A full-featured SSL VPN solution

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