[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: openvpn-2.4.4-1.fc26
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-700915e34f
2017-10-02 14:21:42.635794
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Name : openvpn
Product : Fedora 26
Version : 2.4.4
Release : 1.fc26
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.
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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
instead of the upstream bundled library.
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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
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade openvpn' 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
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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