Fedora 42 OpenVPN 2.6.14 Update: CVE-2025-2704 Security Advisory
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April 11, 2025
Update to upstream OpenVPN 2.6.14 Fixes CVE-2025-2704
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:
Update to upstream OpenVPN 2.6.14 Fixes CVE-2025-2704
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Wed Apr 2 2025 Frank Lichtenheld
References
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-e439589b9d 2025-04-11 18:19:12.062451+00:00
Name : openvpn Product : Fedora 42 Version : 2.6.14 Release : 1.fc42 URL : Summary : A full-featured TLS 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.
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-e439589b9d' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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Name: openvpn
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 2.6.14
Release: 1.fc42
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Summary: A full-featured TLS VPN solution
Topics Covered
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