-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2017-a437fba22e 2017-10-16 15:50:16.856168 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : openvpn Product : Fedora EPEL 6 Version : 2.4.4 Release : 1.el6 URL : https://community.openvpn.net/ 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
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/openvpn/wiki/CVE-2017-12166)). From this update of, OpenVPN will use the lz4 compression library from Fedora EPEL instead of the upstream bundled library. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update openvpn' at the command line. For more information, refer to "YUM", available at https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/htm...
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