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openSUSE Leap 16.0 OpenVPN Important DoS Issue 2026-20137-1 CVE-2025-13086

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Calendar Grey February 3, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
New security update for OpenVPN addresses one critical issue in openSUSE, enhancing overall system protection.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one bug fix can now be installed.

Description

This update for openvpn fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2025-13086: Fixed improper validation of source IP addresses in OpenVPN that could lead to DoS (bsc#1254486).

Patch instructions:

To install this openSUSE security update use the suse recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 16.0

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-16.0-222=1

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Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

openvpn-2.6.10-160000.3.1

openvpn-auth-pam-plugin-2.6.10-160000.3.1

openvpn-devel-2.6.10-160000.3.1

openvpn-down-root-plugin-2.6.10-160000.3.1

References

* bsc#1254486

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-13086.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:20137-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 16.0 -------------------------------------------------------------

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