Fedora 38: openvpn 2023-e4df33666c
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.
Update Information:
This is an extended update of the OpenVPN 2.6.7 release which contains security fixes for CVE-2023-46849 and CVE-2023-46850. That release had a regression causing the `openvpn` daemon to segfault frequently; which is why the 2.6.7 release was pulled. This 2.6.8 release contains a fix for the regression issue as well.
Change Log
* Mon Nov 20 2023 David Sommerseth
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2250097 - CVE-2023-46849 openvpn: Use of --fragment option can lead to a division by zero error [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2250097 [ 2 ] Bug #2250100 - CVE-2023-46850 openvpn: Incorrect use of send buffer can cause memory to be sent to peer [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2250100 [ 3 ] Bug #2250513 - openvpn-2.6.8 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2250513
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-e4df33666c' 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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