Fedora 26: openvpn Security Update 2017-700915e34f

October 2, 2017

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...

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.

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](https://community.openvpn.net/openvpnopenvpn/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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FEDORA-2017-700915e34f 2017-10-02 14:21:42.635794 Product : Fedora 26 Version : 2.4.4 Release : 1.fc26 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. 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](https://community.openvpn.net/openvpnopenvpn/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 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