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Fedora 42: NetworkManager-l2tp Important File Permissions Fix CVE-2025-9615

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
NetworkManager-l2tp updated to 1.52.0 to fix CVE-2025-9615 file permissions issue. Important security advisory for Fedora.
Updated to 1.52.0 release (CVE-2025-9615) Verify file permissions for private connections to prevent unprivileged user from using other user's certs

Summary

This package contains software for integrating L2TP and L2TP over

IPsec VPN support with the NetworkManager.

Update Information:

Updated to 1.52.0 release (CVE-2025-9615) Verify file permissions for private connections to prevent unprivileged user from using other user's certs. Ensure NetworkManager dependency has CVE-2025-9615 update.

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora important file permissions cve-2025-9615 networkmanager-l2tp

Change Log

* Sun Jan 11 2026 Douglas Kosovic - 1.52.0-1 - Updated to 1.52.0 release Verify file permissions for private connections to prevent unprivileged user from using other user's certs (CVE-2025-9615) - Ensure NetworkManager dependency has CVE-2025-9615 update. - Correct sed example in generated README.Fedora and README.EPEL files. * Wed Nov 12 2025 Douglas Kosovic - 1.20.20-5 - Add README.Fedora for Fedora or README.EPEL for EPEL - Use (go-l2tp or xl2tpd) dependency for Fedora 43 to handle upgrades from earlier Fedora versions that had xl2tpd installed. * Tue Aug 26 2025 Douglas Kosovic - 1.20.20-4 - Fix orphaned xl2tpd dependency issue, switch to go-l2tp (rhbz#2390669,rhbz#2390688) * Wed Jul 23 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.20.20-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2026-0d1cf2e45b 2026-01-13 01:12:50.637164+00:00 Name : NetworkManager-l2tp Product : Fedora 42 Version : 1.52.0 Release : 1.fc42 URL : https://github.com/nm-l2tp/NetworkManager-l2tp Summary : NetworkManager VPN plugin for L2TP and L2TP/IPsec Description : This package contains software for integrating L2TP and L2TP over IPsec VPN support with the NetworkManager.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-0d1cf2e45b' 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: NetworkManager-l2tp
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 1.52.0
Release: 1.fc42
URL: https://github.com/nm-l2tp/NetworkManager-l2tp
Summary: NetworkManager VPN plugin for L2TP and L2TP/IPsec

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security advisory fedora important file permissions cve-2025-9615 networkmanager-l2tp

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